A Human Error Approach to Aviation Accident Analysis. The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System
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Author(s): D. A. Wiegmann and S. A. Shappell
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 0754618730
Format: softback
165pp
Price: £19.95
Review Date: 09 August 2003
Review: As aircraft become more reliable, human factors are seen to play a more important role in aircraft accidents. At present, there are a number of frameworks and schemes that are used to investigate accidents. This book gives a user-friendly framework for investigating and analysing human error in accidents. The Human Factors Analysis and Classification system (HFACS), as it is called, was originally developed for the US Navy/Marine Corps as an accident investigation and analysis tool in the mid-1950s, but it has been modified and improved since then. This book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive description of the HFACS framework. This includes the human error perspectives of HFACS, a series of exemplary case studies, using HFACS to interrogate existing accident databases, and a method of validating the FACS framework. The final chapter gives FAQs about HFACS.