Human behavior engineering

Furthermore, from the outset, EPA personnel defined natural resource damage, and environmental contamination, as science and engineering problems, rather than problems of human behavior. 

General design requirements for expert systems have been identified by researches in Artificial Intelligence (AI) (9). More recently, the human behavior in engineering or psycho-engineering concepts have been introduced into the expert opinion (8). 

The current literature in the areas of cognitive engineering, error analysis, and human-computer interaction contains many models, descriptions, methodologies, metaphors, and functional analogies. However, in this chapter we are not focusing on the models of these individual elements of human behavior but rather on models that can be used to describe human performance in systems. These human/system performance models typically include some of these elemental behavioral models as components but provide a structural framework that allows them to be put in the context of human performance of tasks in systems. 

Thomas, John, and Nancy Leveson. 2010. Analyzing Human Behavior in Accidents. MIT Research Report, Engineering Systems Division. 

Human Factors Engineering means the application of knowledge about human performance capabilities and behavioral principles to the design, operation, and maintenance of human-machine systems so that personnel can function at their optimum... 

Second, few engineering programs prepare graduates for evaluating human behavior and human performance. Chapter 8 provides an overview of basic human factors engineering. 

The Three Es of Safety Another concept for accident prevention builds on the Three Es of Safety. The three Es are engineering, education, and enforcement. This approach links to the idea presented earlier that unsafe acts and unsafe conditions result in accidents. Figure 3-4 shows how the three Es links to that idea. Engineering primarily seeks to prevent unsafe conditions. Engineering can also deal with unsafe acts. Later chapters will cover ergonomics and human behavior as part of safety engineering. 

SFPE Engineering Guide to Human Behavior in Fire, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Bethesda, MD, 2003. 

Professional safety practice today involves aspects of engineering, business, health, education, laws and regulations, human behavior, education and training and computer and internet technologies. They use qualitative and quantitative analysis of simple and complex products, systems, operations, and activities to identify hazards. 

Engineers love to quantify whenever possible, and we have done so even in the amorphous area of human behavior. We even attempt to predict quantitatively how people will commit errors. This value is called human error probability (HEP). Mechanical and electrical failme probability predictions are fairly controversial human error probabilities are even more so. There is no single internationally accepted method of quantilying human behavior prediction. Human error prediction, however, is already being used in a variety of fields ... 

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