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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Human Errors"”.
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An alternative approach to information security awareness training to reduce human errors
… percentage of InfoSec breaches are caused by human errors. It is ultimately the end users in any organisation that are the primary line of defence. Whilst security breaches can be attributed to a variety of factors, inadequate user awareness training always features prominently. Awareness …
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Impact of human errors on accidents in the oil and gas industry in Bahrain
… One of the main causes of these accidents is human error. Human error is an improper decision or behaviour of any worker in the workplace. In the Oil and Gas (O&G) industry, human error constitutes as the largest contributor of over 80% of all accidents. Although the O&G industry is a pillar …
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Assessment of an emerging concept in system safety : "the just culture"
… operators' unsafe acts generally termed as "human errors". One way most organizations chose to address this issue is to define accountability and assign blame in the wake of accidents. Clearly, disciplinary policies in force in organizations are supposed to support their system safety …
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Enhancing Safety in Critical Monitoring Systems: Investigating the Roles of Human Error, Fatigue, and Organizational Learning in Socio-Technical Environments
… in an environment that requires high levels of human-machine interaction. Given the potential for catastrophic events , understanding human errors is a critical research area spanning disciplines such as management science, cognitive engineering, resilience engineering, and systems theory. …
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Human error and interactions with technology in safety-critical workplaces: Learning from the aviation industry
Humans are intrinsically motivated to avoid making mistakes in the workplace, yet human errors continue to occur. This research considered the problem of human error in safety-critical workplaces that is often associated with damage to infrastructure, injuries or even death. The study began with a …
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Development of automatic vehicle headway control law and a simulation tool
… flow has been an active area of research. Human Driving involves reaction, delays, and human errors that has adverse effects on traffic flow . We can eliminate human errors by introducing a computer control system. The purpose of this research was to develop and evaluate a control law and a …
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Factors affecting human reliability in the chemical process industry
… with identifying factors which may influence human reliability within chemical process plants - these factors are referred to as Performance Shaping Factors (PSFs). Following a period of familiarization within the industry, a number of case studies were undertaken covering a range of basic …
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Experimental design and results of 2D dynamic damping of payload motion for cranes
… automated and computer controlled, the effect of human errors and limitations can be minimized. The control of this sway will thus greatly improve safety and significantly enhance productivity. The control strategy in the present thesis is based on applying appropriate, periodic balancing forces …
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Mango (Harum Manis) quality grading system
… the farmers due to varying experience and human errors. Moreover, it becomes costly when more workers are needed. This paper investigates this issue and demonstrates a mechatronic system to grade the mangoes by weighing. The user could read the grade from a display. This method provides a …
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Improving Management Strategies for Reduced Freight Costs
… stocks out, damaged inbound products or human errors. Therefore, there is a real opportunity for freight savings. This work offers a cost analysis of potential savings and provides some recommendations to reduce the freight costs. In particular, this thesis focuses on misalignments …
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An evaluation of the Aviation Maintenance Climate Assessment Survey (MCAS), applies to the 3rd Marine Air Wing
… Eighty percent of all mishaps are due in part to human error, and approximately one out of five major mishaps are due to maintainer, line, or facility related factors. Among various efforts to systematically reduce mishaps is the use of the Maintenance Climate Assessment Survey (MCAS). This survey …
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REAL-TIME THREAT ASSESSMENT WITH IMPERFECT SENSOR DATA
… truth because of technological limitations or human errors. This thesis presents a mathematical framework to use sensor-collected data that contain both false negatives and false positives to detect a threat. The first formulation assumes that the sensor operator has intelligence on the threat …
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Modelling the behaviour of a process control operator under stress
… of which attempts to model a specific class of human behaviour. One major effect of stress is the cause of errors, both physical and cognitive. In order to model the effects of stress, two cognitive models, a cognitive model of human errors and a cognitive model of process control operators are …
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A STAMP model of the Überlingen aircraft collision accident
… event chain models that tend to focus on human errors instead of the goals and motives that triggered the errors. The thesis presents a STAMP model of the mid-air collision that occurred on July 1, 2002 near Uberlingen, Germany. This model focuses on the air traffic controller in charge of …
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Towards Developing A Theory of Failure Causality In Operations Management
… both OM triggering factors, as well as their human error antecedents. Using data from the US Department of Energy, the significance of these factors and their relative influence are analyzed for two different severity levels and three different types of human error. Results show that human …
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Information flow for secure distributed applications
… online and increasingly being exposed due to human errors as well as malicious attacks. Information leaks threaten confidentiality, lead to lawsuits, damage enterprise reputations, and cost billion of dollars. While distributed computing architectures provide data and service integration, they …
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Visual Question Answering in the Medical Domain
… This fatigue, physical and mental, can induce human-errors during the diagnosis. In such scenarios, having an additional opinion can be helpful in boosting the confidence of the decision-maker. Thus, it becomes crucial to have a reliable Visual Question Answering (VQA) system which can provide …
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Analysis of microprocessor based vehicular instrumentation and automatic passenger counting systems
… methods for such data is expensive and prone to human errors. Automatic Passenger Counting (APC) systems are viewed as an improved and economical technique for data collection. Such systems monitor the progress of a particular vehicle — its position, number of passengers getting on and off, times …
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Investigating new accident causation, risk assessment, and mitigation strategy selection tools in the petroleum industry
… 2004, p. 3). Because accidents due to both human errors and electromechanical failures still occur and result in various consequences, critics have raised concerns about the petroleum industry's safety and risk mitigation credentials and question its ability to prevent major …
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Applying System-Theoretic Accident Model Process view to patient safety for treatment with oral chemotherapy and anti-cancer drugs
… the safety of complex systems involving humans, organizations, computers, and other equipment. STAMP has the advantage of facilitating the understanding of highly complicated environments where traditional safety techniques become too costly and cumbersome and hence less efficient. "In …
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