Analysis of Nighttime Vehicular Collisions and the Application of Human Factors: An Integrated Approach

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
James K. Sprague ◽  
Peggy Shibata ◽  
Jack L. Auflick
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Integrated Approach

Human-Centered Reengineering: The Integration of Human Factors into Business Reengineering

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 854-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Somberg ◽  
Mary Carol Day
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
System Design ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Process Reengineering ◽  
Mutual Benefit ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up

Business reengineering is currently being employed by many companies to maintain and improve their effectiveness. However, 50% to 70% of all reengineering efforts fail to accomplish their objectives. Although business reengineering and human factors approaches to work process reengineering share many goals, their approaches differ in four significant ways: (1) a top-down vs. a bottom-up approach; (2) starting from scratch vs. learning from an analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the existing work environment, (3) relying mainly on data from management vs. data from workers at all levels, and (4) treating processes and systems independently without a view of the worker at the center vs. a worker-centered integrated approach to process and system design. An integration of human factors approaches into business reengineering can increase the success of reengineering efforts. Data from projects where human factors specialists worked on reengineering efforts illustrate the mutual benefit to both types of work that can be gained through collaboration.

An Integrated Approach to Maintenance Human Factors

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerry P. Allen ◽  
William L. Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Integrated Approach

scholarly journals Incorporation of human factors into a Discrete Event Simulation Model for human centred assembly performance evaluation

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-448
Author(s):  
M.I. Abubakar ◽  
Q. Wang
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Discrete Event Simulation ◽  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Manufacturing System ◽  
Discrete Event ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Early Design Stage ◽  
Event Simulation

Discrete Event Simulation (DES) tool is commonly used for the design, analysis, and evaluation of manufacturing systems. Human centred assembly systems offer better system flexibility and responsiveness due to inherent human intelligence and problem-solving abilities; human can deal with product variations and production volumes; and can always adapt themselves to multiple tasks after learning process. Nevertheless, human performance can be unpredictable, and may alter over time due to varying psychological and physiological states, these are often overlooked by researchers when designing, implementing, or evaluating a manufacturing system. In this paper a user-friendly integrated DES method was proposed to enable manufacturing system designers to investigate overall performance of human centred system considering effects of selected human factors. the method can permit manufacturing system designers to evaluate overall manufacturing system performance with considerations of parameters of human factors at early design stage. A case study was carried out using integrated approach; simulation results demonstrate the applicability of this approach.

855 Effect of an integrated approach to care on heart failure patients with hypertension

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-186
Author(s):  
E COSENTINO ◽  
E RINALDI ◽  
D DEGLIESPOSTI ◽  
S BACCHELLI ◽  
D DESANCTIS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Failure ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Heart Failure Patients

An Application of the HFACS Method to Aviation Accidents in Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isaac Munene
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Flight Training ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Causal Factors ◽  
Aviation Accidents ◽  
Factors Analysis ◽  
Adverse Weather ◽  
Decision Errors

Abstract. The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) methodology was applied to accident reports from three African countries: Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. In all, 55 of 72 finalized reports for accidents occurring between 2000 and 2014 were analyzed. In most of the accidents, one or more human factors contributed to the accident. Skill-based errors (56.4%), the physical environment (36.4%), and violations (20%) were the most common causal factors in the accidents. Decision errors comprised 18.2%, while perceptual errors and crew resource management accounted for 10.9%. The results were consistent with previous industry observations: Over 70% of aviation accidents have human factor causes. Adverse weather was seen to be a common secondary casual factor. Changes in flight training and risk management methods may alleviate the high number of accidents in Africa.

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