Human factors supervision

Health and Safety Executive (HSE). (2007). Human Factors Supervision. London Health and Safety Executive (http //www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/comah/supervision.htm). 

Quality of installation and the adherence to design specifications of the equipment should be evaluated to ensure that errors during shipping and installation were not made. Often overlooked at this phase are human factors considerations for the construction crew, such as selection of the contractor, training of the crew, lighting, shift work, procedures, and supervision. 

Work has its special properties in coal mine production line workers, the subject they are productive activity, and is the main excitation accident. Personnel errors has become an important source of danger of accidents, on the one hand, it lies in internal factors, such as age, physical, physiological, psychological, their safety awareness effect on the other hand it lies in the external factors of workers in the work, such as the environment, enterprises of staff supervision, the completeness of machinery and equipment effects of the above factors, induced to have accidents tend to internal factors, external factors, individual, forming a human behavior set beam. Therefore, prevention and reduction caused by human factors of accidents has become an important issue to be solved in coal mine enterprise. 

Part 4 is a collection of human factors interventions from the different indnstry modes. It will introdnce the concept that human error is indeed ubicpiitous and therefore, its management should be approached from multiple applications training and development, leadership and supervision, situational awareness, distraction management etc. Novel elements in this part include research on driver distraction, medical team resource management, a new look at situational awareness, rail risk management and fatigue management in the medical field. 

Despite its obvious importance to complex systan safety and efficiency, the concept of supervision has received surprisingly little attention within the human factors literature. The concept does however emerge within the human error and teamwork literature. Within the teamwork literature it is often referred to as a key teamwork behavior and within the human error literature as a causal factor in organizational accidents and incidents it is also apparent that only limited guidance relates to how to provide, assess, and improve supervision within complex sociotechnical systans. 

Brazier, A., Gait, A., and Waite, P. (2004). Different Types of Supervision and the Impact on Safety in the Chemical and Allied Industries. London Health and Safety Executive. Burke, C.S. (2004). Team task analysis. In N.A. Stanton, A. Hedge, K. Brookhuis, E. Salas, and H. Hendrick (Eds.), Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods (pp. 526-535). Boca Raton, FL CRC Press. 

The ITCI checklist on causal factors at the workplace level is based on a man-environment dichotomy, because it distinguishes between individual and workplace-related causal factors. The latter category also includes management factors such as leadership and supervision. It has been developed from practical experience and does not represent a taxonomy. Some of the items or classes in the checklist are overlapping, for example, inadequate equipment and inadequate engineering. This causes problems of reliability in the classification of causal factors. Whereas Swain s checklist is intended for use by human-factor experts, the ILCI checklist is used by the supervisors in their first report on accidents and incidents. This also causes problems of reliability in applications of the checklist, because especially the individual factors are subject to interpretation and value judgements. 

The Three Mile Island accident (1979) was attributed largely to failures in human factors and the ability of management and supervision to understand what was going on. 

Go to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress Web site at www.centerforthestudyoftraumaticstress.org. Click on Fact Sheets, then click on Information for Relief Workers on Emotional Reactions to Handling Human Bodies. Scroll down and click on Information for Relief Workers on Emotional Reactions to Handling Human Bodies and then click on Leadership and Supervision for Body Recovery in Mass Death. How should relief workers handle victims personal effects What is the recommendation regarding use of perfumes, and so on, to mask odors Is pairing relief workers with a buddy a suggested practice What factors may increase the traumatic nature of the experience ... 

This chapter focuses on safe practice in relation to educational activities and experiences that take pupils away from the school and into the outdoor classroom. Here, the complex interplay of human and environmental factors is a significant issue and one which differentiates the learning context from that found on the school site and within the classroom. Drawing on case studies and research on accidents in the outdoors, this chapter begins by considering the unique nature of the outdoor classroom and what can be learned from tragedy in terms of understanding accidents in the outdoors. It also identifies supervision as the basic principle of safe practice and discusses elements of this and the... 

Addressing the risks posed by human error presents challenges to traditional approaches to safety risk management. Many of the challenges arise because of the very nature of human error (e.g. the nature of the task, conditions of operation, human frailties such as emotions or fatigue, team factors such as supervision, etc.), which has numerous causes and can therefore be difficult to fully understand, predict, model or prevent. 

In recognition of the fact that human health is of paramount importance, therefore, the categorization system is based on the potential for radioactive sources to cause deterministic health effects. This potential is due partly to the physical properties of the source, especially its activity, and partly to the way in which the source is used. The practice in which the source is used, the provision of any inherent shielding provided by the device containing the source, the level of supervision and other factors need to be taken into consideration, as described in paras I-13-I-14. 

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