Using simulated investigations for accident investigation studies

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Woodcock, Kathryn ^a   Drury, Colin G ^b,e   Smiley, Alison ^a,c,f   Ma, Jiao ^d,g  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

^c Human Factors North Inc   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^e Research Institute for Safety and Security in Transportation

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^g Perficient Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Industrial accident investigation; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; SAFETY FACTOR;

CAUSAL REASONING; INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION;

ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SAFETY; SIMULATION; WORK; BIOENGINEERING; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 19644397028     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2004.10.002     Document Type: Article

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