Association between Human Error and Occupational Accidents’ Contributing Factors for Hand Injuries in the Automotive Manufacturing Industry

Reyes, Rosa María Ortiz; Riva, Jorge de la; Maldonado, Araceli; Woocay, Arturo; O, Rodolfo de la

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.936

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“…Unforeseen human errors and machine failures disrupt the system, creating or leading to fluctuation in the production. Researchers have demonstrated that human errors are mostly identified as the main factor in manufacturing accidents [35]. The accumulation of mental workload or limited allocation of organizations' resources, due to a poor understanding of the damages that could be cause by human errors have worsen the situation [36], [37].…”

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“…The accumulation of mental workload or limited allocation of organizations' resources, due to a poor understanding of the damages that could be cause by human errors have worsen the situation [36], [37]. When designing systematic measures or programs for increasing reliability and for adjusting reliability prediction for risks, an investigation on human error in accidents should be considered by including human factors aspects in the working environment that can prevent accidents attributed to human error consecutively [35].…”

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Safety Accidents at the Workplace

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Human factors is an important aspect to consider when designing a safe and healthy workplace. Human errors are usually outcomes of long chains of events, and preventing human error at work calls for preventive actions or safety–related measures that include the human factors in order for it to be effective. Human factors are addressed with regard to safety and health with the goal to optimise human performance and minimise human failures. Accident causation is a very complex phenomenon and need to be understood adequately with the purpose of improving workplace safety. Based on the Swiss Cheese Theory, human error is studied in this paper. Objectives: To study how human errors are involved in safety–related accidents at the workplace; and to study how human factors can be integrate in accident prevention. Methodology: A qualitative study using document analysis method. Results and discussion: Conclusion: workers’ individual attributes may also be the source of accidents. People tend to make a lower risk estimation of their own job compare with other jobs; and underestimated the risks within their own job. The availability of information relevant to the hazard, risk estimations, types of exposure, and control measures are useful in helping people to understand risks better.

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“…Historically, the general focus has been on safety accidents, e.g., machinery accidents [8], and human error [37]. Existing approaches to reduce health and safety risk are primarily focused on risk management methodology [7].…”

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Measuring Industrial Health Using a Diminished Quality of Life Instrument

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2018

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Historically, the focus of industrial health and safety (H&S) has been on safety and accident avoidance with relatively less attention to long-term occupational health other than via health monitoring and surveillance. The difficulty is the multiple overlapping health consequences that are difficult to separate, measure, and attribute to a source. Furthermore, many health problems occur later, not immediately on exposure, and may be cumulative. Consequently, it is difficult to conclusively identify the cause. Workers may lack knowledge of long-term consequences, and thus not use protective systems effectively. Compounding this is the lack of instruments and methodologies to measure exposure to harm. Historically, the existing risk methodologies for calculating safety risk are based on the construct of consequence and likelihood. However, this may not be appropriate for health, especially for the long-term harm, as both the consequence and likelihood may be indeterminate. This paper develops an instrument to measure the health component of workplace H&S. This is achieved by adapting the established World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS) quality of life score to workplace health. Specifically, the method is to identify the likelihood of an exposure incident arising (as estimated by engineering technologists and H&S officers), followed by evaluation of the biological harm consequences. Those consequences are then scored by using the WHODAS 12-item inventory. The result is an assessment of the Diminished Quality of Life (DQL) associated with a workplace hazard. This may then be used to manage the minimization of harm, exposure monitoring, and the design of safe systems of work.

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“…It has been found that human errors and organizational factors were typically the major causes of accidents (Reyes et al 2015). Therefore, for the safety of any organization, there is need for an absolute understanding for all the possible reasons that might cause accident (Doytchev and Gerd 2009).…”

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Modification of the TRACEr model as a tool foranalysingaccidents inthe Oil and Gas industry: The TRACEr-OGI.

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2022

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Safetythe reversedside of an accidentis always anintegral partof every organisational set up. Hence, risk assessments andaccidents analysis in the oil and gas industriesis always inevitable. As one of the organizationswith highest number of accidentsreports,the oil and gas industry has beentrying most at times to adopt several established accidentsanalysing tools/models to address this aspect. Therefore, this paper critically analyses and adoptsone of the accident analysingmodels used in the aviation industry called the TRACEr (Techniques for the Retrospective and predictive Analysis of Cognitive Errors) model to fit into the oil and gas industrial accidentsanalysis. In achieving this, taxonomies of most benefit from the TRACEr model were adopted while making changes to some key areasto develop the new model called the TRACEr OGI. Accidents reports from variousoil and gas industriesretrieved fromthe international association of oil and gas producers (IOGP)database focussing on Russia and central Asiawere usedto test the reliability of the new TRACEr OGImodel. The new TRACEr OGI has seven levels of taxonomies asopposed to theeightlevelsfrom the main TRACErmodel were the central change been made at the Cognitive level of the operator context.The result of the analysis for reliability test shows that, there exist a reasonable percentage of correlation for the Human-Machine interface and the task errors in the oil and gas industryand hence the TRACEr OGI can be adopted for accident analysis inoil and gas industries.

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Association between Human Error and Occupational Accidents’ Contributing Factors for Hand Injuries in the Automotive Manufacturing Industry

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Safety Accidents at the Workplace

Safety Accidents at the Workplace

Measuring Industrial Health Using a Diminished Quality of Life Instrument

Modification of the TRACEr model as a tool foranalysingaccidents inthe Oil and Gas industry: The TRACEr-OGI.

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