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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"HFACS"”.
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An Analysis of Helicopter EMS Accidents using HFACS: 2000-2012
<p>In 1972, the first hospital based civilian helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) in the United States began operations. While the use of helicopters to transport medical casualties started decades previously, St. Anthony Flight for Life represented the start of an industry that would grow …
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An Analysis of Airport Surface Deviations using the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS)
<p>An analysis of accident and incident data from the Federal Aviation Administration Runway Safety database and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) database was performed to determine causal factors for airport surface deviations over a 12-year period, from January 1, 2001 through …
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The Relationship Among HFACS Levels and Analysis of Human Factors in Unmanned and Manned Air Vehicles
… vehicle accident causes. The study acquired DOD HFACS accident classification data from 347 United States Air Force Class A accident reports for the years between 2000 and 2013.</p> <p>The dissertation utilized a set of analysis that is considered to contribute substantially to the respective …
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A Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) Approach to Compare Cardiovascular, Orthopedics, Trauma Care, and Neurosurgery
… Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) offers a proactive lens to understand how and where errors emerge and is useful for identifying active and latent failures.</p> <p><strong>Objective:</strong> To evaluate the utility and reliability of the Human Factors Analysis and …
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A Human Factors Approach for Identifying Latent Failures in Healthcare Settings
… Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), a tool that has historically been used reactively to look at accidents and incidents, for classifying observational data from various healthcare venues.</p> <p>METHOD: Three studies are presented to investigate the reliability of HFACS for …
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Human Error in Commercial Fishing Vessel Accidents: An Investigation Using the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System
… Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), specifically for commercial fishing industry vessels (HFACS-FV), using ten years of data documenting the causes of fatal accidents in the commercial fishing industry. For this study, the accident investigation information will be converted …
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Nurturing Systems Thinking: Developing a Framework Based on the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) to Improve Systems Development Processes
… Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) is used to facilitate the consideration of non-salient, easily overlooked influences on the potential for aviation mishaps. This system has improved the effectiveness of the aviation accident investigation by helping investigators perform a …
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Teamwork Turbulence: Lessons for Multi-Team Systems from a Decade of Aviation Accident Reports
… Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS; Wiegmann & Shappell, 2001). However, there is currently no comprehensive error framework specifically designed to analyze MTS-related attributes in aviation. While the HFACS framework does not explicitly focus on MTSs, it does identify …
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Aligning Aviation Safety Reporting System Anomaly Codes for Crew Communication and Coordination with Human Factors Taxonomies
… Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), Threat and Error Management (TEM), and Aviation Causal Contributors for Error Reporting Systems (ACCERS). The study used qualitative text mining to systematically code communication and coordination errors submitted by Part 121 pilots for a …
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Analysis of aircraft accidents and effects on aviation industry in Nigeria
… role of human error on accidents data using the HFACS framework, and evaluate the effects of aircraft accidents in Nigeria aviation industry. To achieve these, a constructionist perspective was held and multiple approaches were adopted including robust literature review and secondary data …
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An Analysis of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services and Human Error Contributors to Accidents
… Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS). This study is a retrospective analysis of HEMS accidents. Analysis of types of errors committed revealed that skill-based errors were most common; however, violations were the only error type significantly associated with fatality. Findings …
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Integrating Safety, Security and Human Factors Engineering in Rail Infrastructure Design and Evaluation.
… Factors Analysis and Clas- sification System (HFACS) frameworks are used to inform Systems-Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA). This integrated design framework is tool-supported using the open- source Computer Aided Integrating Requirements and Information Security (CAIRIS) platform. Thirdly, …
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A system theoretic safety analysis of U.S. Coast Guard aviation mishap involving CG-6505
… Factors Analysis and Classification System (DOD HFACS) which is based on the 'Swiss Cheese' accident causal analysis model. Individual MAB results did not identify common causal or contributing factors that may be causing systemic failures within the aviation safety system. Subsequently, the …
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The Effectiveness of Behavior-based Safety in the Flight Training Environment
Although flight training accounts for an eighth of the total flying in general aviation, nearly one-third of midair collisions occur during instructional flights. Initiating clearing turns prior to training maneuvers is an important means of preventing a midair collision. Therefore, the purpose of …