The Need for, and Benefits of, Documenting Human Factors Efforts

1980 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 421-424
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
The Cost

This presentation describes the need for, and benefits of, documenting savings realized through the application of human factors principles. Benefits of documenting savings are described as they affect the human factors specialist, management, and the customer. Non-recurring costs which result from a human factors investment, as well as resultant savings, must be considered in determining the cost-effectiveness of the intervention. Areas in which the human factors specialist can have an impact are defined and alternative methods of reporting savings are described.

Comparison of Alternative Methods to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of Tumor-Agnostic Therapies: A Triangulation Approach Using Larotrectinib as a Case Study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Briggs ◽  
Beth Wehler ◽  
Jennifer G. Gaultney ◽  
Alex Upton ◽  
Antoine Italiano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
The Cost

Life and Death

1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry M. Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Population Control ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Defense Systems ◽  
The Cost

A “systems study of mankind” should incorporate analyses of the cost/effectiveness of life and human factors analyses of death. Various methods have been adopted for placing a dollar value on human life. Human factors studies can attempt to prevent loss of life in vehicular accidents, incorporate the number of lives saved as a criterion of the benefits of improvements in defense systems, examine the nature of behavior governed by deterrence, and investigate some of the complexities of population control. Systematic investigation might also be conducted into the parameters of death. An ecological projection suggests that a nuclear war may occur to counteract the disequilibrium of nature resulting from technology, including the population explosion.

scholarly journals Analysis of the Cost Effectiveness of a Suicide Barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge

Crisis ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dayna Atkins Whitmer ◽  
David Lauren Woods
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Suicide Mortality ◽  
Golden Gate ◽  
Golden Gate Bridge ◽  
The Cost

Background: The Golden Gate Bridge (GGB) is a well-known “suicide magnet” and the site of approximately 30 suicides per year. Recently, a suicide barrier was approved to prevent further suicides. Aims: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of the proposed suicide barrier, we compared the proposed costs of the barrier over a 20-year period ($51.6 million) to estimated reductions in mortality. Method: We reviewed San Francisco and Golden Gate Bridge suicides over a 70-year period (1936–2006). We assumed that all suicides prevented by the barrier would attempt suicide with alternative methods and estimated the mortality reduction based on the difference in lethality between GGB jumps and other suicide methods. Cost/benefit analyses utilized estimates of value of statistical life (VSL) used in highway projects. Results: GGB suicides occur at a rate of approximately 30 per year, with a lethality of 98%. Jumping from other structures has an average lethality of 47%. Assuming that unsuccessful suicides eventually committed suicide at previously reported (12–13%) rates, approximately 286 lives would be saved over a 20-year period at an average cost/life of approximately $180,419 i.e., roughly 6% of US Department of Transportation minimal VSL estimate ($3.2 million). Conclusions: Cost-benefit analysis suggests that a suicide barrier on the GGB would result in a highly cost-effective reduction in suicide mortality in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Analysis of the U.S. Geological Survey Streamgaging Network

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Arthur G. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Satellite Telemetry ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Current Operating ◽  
The U.S

This paper summarizes the results from the first 3 years of a 5-year cost-effectiveness study of the U.S. Geological Survey streamgaging network. The objective of the study is to define and document the most cost-effective means of furnishing streamflow information. In the first step of this study, data uses were identified for 3,493 continuous-record stations currently being operated in 32 States. In the second step, evaluation of alternative methods of providing streamflow information, flow-routing models, and regression models were developed for estimating daily flows at 251 stations of the 3,493 stations analyzed. In the third step of the analysis, relationships were developed between the accuracy of the streamflow records and the operating budget. The weighted standard error for all stations, with current operating procedures, was 19.9 percent. By altering field activities, as determined by the analyses, this could be reduced to 17.8 percent. The existing streamgaging networks in four Districts were further analyzed to determine the impacts that satellite telemetry would have on the cost effectiveness. Satellite telemetry was not found to be cost effective on the basis of hydrologic data collection alone, given present cost of equipment and operation.

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