Risk Assessment In The Military: A Work/Rest Schedule-Based Tool For The Usn Surface Fleet

Long working hours, 24/7 shift work, restricted sleep opportunities, and circadian misalignment all lead to degraded human performance and impairments in decision making. After several mishaps involving U.S. Navy warships in 2017, renewed attention was devoted to optimizing warfighter performance and reducing safety risks associated with crew endurance and fatigue issues. This paper summarizes the development and initial evaluation of the Scheduling Management Aid for Risk Tracking (SMART) prototype. SMART is a human performance risk assessment tool designed to help the U.S. Navy systematically assess and mitigate risk due to crew fatigue during in port and at-sea operations. The heuristics underlying the prototype are selected to identify and quantify human performance risk based on a Sailor’s work and rest patterns. The results are designed to enable data-driven crew resource management decisions, take targeted fatigue mitigation actions, and rapidly calculate human performance risks.

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Conceptualization of Aviation Cabin Crew’s Fatigue Risk Assessment

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications - Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XXXII ◽

10.3233/faia200837 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Irem Çevik ◽

Bibek Bam ◽

Ajantha Dahanayake ◽

Kalle Elfvengren

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Working Hours ◽

Air Travel ◽

Aviation Industry ◽

Long Working Hours ◽

Alarm Fatigue ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Transportation Sector ◽

The Relationship

Airlines are of great importance to the transportation sector. With the increase in commercial air travel, airlines require extra flight crews. Aviation industry’s cabin crewmembers are faced with working overtime, working in shifts and long working hours. The shift system causes fatigue for flight crews. Fatigue is of critical importance in the aviation industry. Depending on the physical and psychological fatigue, explicit or implicit results appear. There are a number of approaches in the aviation industry to prevent fatigue. When previous studies are examined, there are few studies examine in the general, and aviation crew’s fatigue treat both pilots and cabin crew alike. The relationship between cabin crew’s fatigue-to-fatigue risk management systems, key fatigue-causing factors, tools to alarm fatigue, and outcome assessments are non-existent. However, various difficulties are encountered in measuring the cabin crews fatigue levels and measurements and are often subjective and not reliable. Therefore, the aim of this study is to create a concept map to be integrated into the aviation cabin crew’s fatigue risk assessment application design and implementation in order to arrive at a comprehensive fatigue risk assessment tool for the aviation industry.

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Human Systems Integration Risk Management Tool

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/1541931218621075 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 325-329

Author(s):

William Kosnik ◽

Patrick O’Neill ◽

Zachary Zimmerlin

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Human Performance ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Systems Integration ◽

Management Tool ◽

Management Approach ◽

Performance Risk ◽

Human Systems Integration ◽

System Acquisition ◽

Human Systems

The Human Systems Integration Risk Management Tool (HSI-RMT) is a software-based interactive application designed to track, analyze, and mitigate human performance risk associated with the development of systems. It spans system development from concept formation to sustainment, that is – across the entire system acquisition lifecycle. HSI-RMT combines two previously developed tools: the HSI Capabilities and Requirements Tool (HSI-CART) and the HSI Program Risk Assessment Tool (HSI-PRAT). The former addresses HSI in capability requirements planning and the latter human performance considerations in system acquisition. HSI-RMT overlays a risk management approach onto the two tools in order to help the HSI practitioner identify, analyze, and mitigate human performance risk to program success. Tool content, in the form of best practice questions, was developed by Air Force HSI and industry subject matter experts. HSI-RMT promises to be a useful tool to help HSI practitioners manage human-centric risk across the system lifecycle. A demonstration will be given.

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A Study on Ergonomic Workstations for Standing Operators at a Manufacturing Factory in Malaysia

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.471.172 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 471 ◽

pp. 172-177

Author(s):

Baba Md Deros ◽

Nasir Senin ◽

Nor Kamaliana Khamis

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Musculoskeletal Disorders ◽

Health And Safety ◽

Working Hours ◽

Body Parts ◽

Anthropometric Data ◽

Long Working Hours ◽

Electronic Product ◽

Shoulder Region

Ergonomically designed workstation is vital towards improving health and safety of operators. This study was carried out at the assembly department to assess female operators effectiveness at standing workstations during assembling different components and parts for making electronic product in a manufacturing factory. Long working hours with static standing postures can lead to musculoskeletal disorders. The study main objectives are to assess, identify risks and body parts complaints with respect to standing workstation. The methodology use in this study includes anthropometric data measurements of female operators, standing risk assessment and body parts symptoms survey. One hundred female operators working at standing workstations took part in the study. This study revealed three major types of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) observed in this factory, they are pain at the shoulder region, pain at the leg region and pain at the upper back region. Based on the findings from this study, the authors have proposed a standing workstation designs that overcome the MSDs.

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