Are you fit to continue? Approaching rail systems thinking at the cusp of safety and the apex of performance

Safety Science

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 101-110

  Naweed, Anjum ^a,b   Rainbird, Sophia ^a,b   Dance, Craig ^c  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Rail Innovation ^*  (Australia)

^c Rail Corporation New South Wales   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complexity; Managerial thinking and cognition; Rail safety; Risk perception; Systems thinking

Indexed keywords

DRIVER TRAINING; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RISK PERCEPTION; SYSTEM THEORY;

COMPLEXITY; MANAGERIAL THINKING AND COGNITION; RAIL SAFETIES; RESEARCH APPROACH; SCENARIO SIMULATIONS; SYSTEMS THINKING; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; TRAIN DRIVINGS;

SAFETY ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DRIVER; DRIVING ABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; NEW ZEALAND; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAILWAY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; TRAFFIC SAFETY;

EID: 84924985667     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: 18791042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2015.02.016     Document Type: Article

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