Human error risk management methodology for safety audit of a large railway organisation

Pietro Cacciabue

Human error risk management methodology for safety audit of a large railway organisation

Pietro Cacciabue

European Commission, Joint Research Centre

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Abstract

This paper considers the application of the human error risk management for engineering systems (HERMES) methodology for safety assessment studies. The application concerns the recurrent safety audits (RSA) of a large organisation in the domain of railway transportation systems. The objective of the study was the identification of the most relevant areas of intervention for improving safety and reliability of the service.

The methodology has been applied to the whole organisation and its working processes. Specific attention was paid to train drivers. A number of critical indicators of safety and recurrent safety audit matrices were identified, which enabled the assessment of the safety level of the organisation and the generation of safety recommendations.

The application of HERMES to this case study shows that the methodology is applicable in practice and can give valuable and significant results.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Rail human factors
Subtitle of host publication	supporting the integrated railway
Editors	John Wilson, Beverley Norris, Theresa Clarke, Ann Mills
Place of Publication	Aldershot, U.K.
Publisher	Ashgate
Pages	353-365
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315089201
ISBN (Print)	9780754643821
Publication status	Published - 27 Oct 2005
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

rail human factors
recurrent safety audit
modelling human machine interaction
field studies

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