Throughout the last century and in recent years, several bridge failures have taken place worldwide. Recent studies uncovered that primary cause of these collapses was human errors design, construction, operation phases. Regardless this finding, there is still a considerable gap between information known risk they represent for structural safety. Aiming better understanding errors, an identific...

This paper focuses on parameters related to the human machine cooperation and erroneous human behaviour affecting the system performance and safety. The concept of cooperation is presented through three prerequisites: the Know-How related to competences, Know-How-to-Cooperate related to coordination between activities and the Need-to-Cooperate to justify the activities of cooperation. It is ext...

This paper focuses on the steps taken to minimize human error in simulation modeling in General Motors. While errors are costly and undesirable in any field, they are especially harmful in simulation which has been struggling to gain acceptance in the business world for a long time. The solution discussed in this paper can be summarized as “enter the data once and use the best tool for the job.”

In the spreadsheet error community, both academics and practitioners generally have ignored the rich findings produced by a century of human error research. These findings can suggest ways to reduce errors; we can then test these suggestions empirically. In addition, research on human error seems to suggest that several common prescriptions and expectations for reducing errors are likely to be ...

Human error has been implicated in 70 to 80% of all civil and military aviation accidents. Yet, most accident reporting systems are not designed around any theoretical framework of human error. As a result, most accident databases are not conducive to a traditional human error analysis, making the identification of intervention strategies onerous. What is required is a general human error frame...

This report uses examples from two flight deck based case studies to illustrate how to use the THEA technique for carrying out a human error analysis during early design. The aim is that this document should accompany a one day tutorial and should be sufficient to capture the essence of the design method. This document introduces material that is an evolution of the THEA techniques and includes...

Accident and incident analysis is essential to the study of human error and the development of error prevention measures. Human Error research deals essentially with the classification of error and the identification of the causal relation between the error detected and the level of human performance at which it occurred. As a result the literature proposes many error categorization methods and...