Flight Safety and Human Factors Problems.

Human Factors Engineering and Flight Deck

This chapter briefly describes Human Factors Engineering and considerations for civil aircraft flight deck design. The motivation for providing the emphasis on the Human Factor is that the operation of future aviation systems will continue to rely on humans in the system for effective, efficient, and safe operation. Pilots, mechanics, air traffic service personnel, designers, dispatchers, and m...

Safety assessment and human factors

This chapter examines the safety assessment of systems that include people. Specifically, the chapter is concerned with the analysis of safety in complex, information systems that characteristically support dynamic processes involving large numbers of hardware, software and human elements interacting in many different ways. The chapter assumes little or no knowledge of either safety assessment ...

Human factors and road safety

This article presents a brief overview of the research performed at the Human Factors Division of The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute between 1977 and 1986. The focus of the research has been on human factors (ergonomics) aspects of road safety. Specifically, the research has dealt with the following issues: vehicle headlighting, vehicle rear lighting and signalling, ve...

Nextgen Flight Deck Human Factors Issues

Human Factors and Safety Culture in Maritime Safety (revised)

As in every industry at risk, the human and organizational factors constitute the main stakes for maritime safety. Furthermore, several events at sea have been used to develop appropriate risk models. The investigation on maritime accidents is, nowadays, a very important tool to identify the problems related to human factor and can support accident prevention and the improv...