Understanding safety and production risks in rail engineering planning and protection

Ergonomics

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 774-790

  Wilson, John R ^a,b   Ryan, Brendan ^a   Schock, Alex ^c   Ferreira, Pedro ^c   Smith, Stuart ^c   Pitsopoulos, Julia ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c NETWORK RAIL   (United Kingdom)

^d Risk Management   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Engineering risk; Function analysis; Human factors risk; Resilience engineering; Risk assessment, rail

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING PERSPECTIVE; ENGINEERING PLANNING; ENGINEERING SYSTEMS; ENGINEERING WORKS; FUNCTION ANALYSIS; HUMAN ERRORS; HUMAN FACTORS; HUMAN FACTORS RISK; HUMAN RELIABILITY; MANAGING PROJECTS; POTENTIAL SYSTEMS; PREDICTION AND ANALYSIS; PRODUCTION RISKS; RAIL SYSTEMS; RESILIENCE ENGINEERING; RISK AVERSE;

ENGINEERING; ERGONOMICS; PLANNING; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARTICLE; ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERGONOMICS; HEALTH HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; RAILWAY EMPLOYEE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK REDUCTION;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; RAILROADS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 68349135159     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130802642211     Document Type: Article

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