Improving Mining Equipment Safety Through Human-Centered Design

Horberry, Tim; Burgess-Limerick, Robin; Cooke, Tristan; Steiner, Lisa

doi:10.1177/1064804616636299

Cited by 10 publications

(7 citation statements)

References 8 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…According to human behavior analysis, the proposed approach is based on the analysis of the operators' feedback, whose involvement has a positive impact on the safety climate at the company level [69], favoring the implementation of safer solutions from both the management and the engineering point of view [70]. The participatory nature of the PHSA method, in fact, allows safety managers to better understand the workers' safety problems and consequently to adopt more human-centered solutions [71].…”

Section: Effectiveness Of the Proposed Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preliminary Human Safety Assessment (PHSA) for the Improvement of the Behavioral Aspects of Safety Climate in the Construction Industry

Fargnoli

Lombardi

2019

Buildings

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Occupational safety in the construction industry still represents a relevant problem at a global level. In fact, the complexity of working activities in this sector requires a comprehensive approach that goes beyond normative compliance to guarantee safer working conditions. In particular, empirical research on the factors influencing the unsafe behavior of workers needs to be augmented. Thus, the relationship between human factors and safety management issues following a bottom-up approach was investigated. In particular, an easy-to-use procedure that can be used to better address workers’ safety needs augmenting the company’s safety climate and supporting safety management issues was developed. Such an approach, based on the assessment of human reliability factors, was verified in a real case study concerning the users of concrete mixer trucks. The results showed that the majority of human failures were action and retrieval errors, underlining the importance of theoretical and practical training programs as a means to improve safety behavior. In such a context, information and communication activities also resulted beneficially to augment the company’s safety climate. The proposed approach, despite its qualitative nature, allows a clearer understanding of workers’ perceptions of hazards and their risk-taking behavior, providing practical cues to monitor and improve the behavioral aspects of safety climate. Hence, these first results can contribute to augmenting safety knowledge in the construction industry, providing a basis for further investigations on the causalities related to human performances, which are considered a key element in the prevention of accidents.

show abstract

Section: Effectiveness Of the Proposed Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preliminary Human Safety Assessment (PHSA) for the Improvement of the Behavioral Aspects of Safety Climate in the Construction Industry

Fargnoli

Lombardi

2019

Buildings

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…3. involving operators in the risk assessment process allows engineers to better define the specific tasks, the identification of hazards and the determination of risks [51];…”

Section: Background and Motivationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hazard function deployment: a QFD-based tool for the assessment of working tasks – a practical study in the construction industry

Fargnoli

Lombardi

Haber

et al. 2018

International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Despite the efforts made, the number of accidents has not significantly decreased in the construction industry. The main reasons can be found in the peculiarities of working activities in this sector, where hazard analysis and safety management are more difficult than in other industries. To deal with these problems, a comprehensive approach for hazard analysis is needed, focusing on the activities in which a working task is articulated since they are characterized by different types of hazards and thus risk levels. The study proposes a methodology that integrates quality function deployment (QFD) and analytic network process methods to correlate working activities, hazardous events and possible consequences. This provides more effective decision-making, while reducing the ambiguity of the qualitative assessment criteria. The results achieved can augment knowledge on the usability of QFD in safety research, providing a basis for its application for further studies.

show abstract

“…Furthermore, it may stimulate application of specific tools to key issues identified. OMAT is a six stage process shown Figure 1: more details of the method are given in Horberry et al (2016). The first step of the OMAT process is the Critical Task Identification.…”

Section: Basic Description Of the Omat Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This general process is often associated with 'Prevention through Design' (PtD) -in effect it is ultimately about promoting safe behaviour by means of creating safe equipment through designing out hazards (Cooke, 2015). PtD also has strong links to human-centered safe design (HCSD) which is a process to make equipment and systems more usable and acceptable by explicitly focusing on the end-user, their tasks and their work environment/use context (Horberry, Burgess-Limerick and Steiner, 2016).…”

Section: Introduction: the Need For Safe Design Of Mining Equipmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human-Centered Safe Design of Mining Equipment

Horberry

Burgess-Limerick

Cooke

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Human-centered safe design is an increasingly influential approach in mining and other high-hazard work domains in part due to a growing recognition of the contribution of design to occupational safety. Human- centered safe design aims to eliminate workplace hazards by systematically involving end-users in the design of equipment. In this paper, the need for human-centered safe design work in the minerals industry is first introduced and a method previously developed by the authors and colleagues is presented. This human-centered safe design method is a task-based, participatory ergonomics, risk management approach that focuses on mining equipment operators and maintainers. A case study follows which demonstrates that focusing on end-users and their tasks by means of a structured user-centered process can help produce fit- for-purpose equipment for the mining industry.

show abstract

Improving Mining Equipment Safety Through Human-Centered Design

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

Preliminary Human Safety Assessment (PHSA) for the Improvement of the Behavioral Aspects of Safety Climate in the Construction Industry

Preliminary Human Safety Assessment (PHSA) for the Improvement of the Behavioral Aspects of Safety Climate in the Construction Industry

Hazard function deployment: a QFD-based tool for the assessment of working tasks – a practical study in the construction industry

Human-Centered Safe Design of Mining Equipment

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About