Predicting System Interactions in the Design Process

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• Personal Author:
  Cornelius K ; Steiner L ; Turin, Fred C.
• Description:
  It was evident that operators had adapted to the visibility and positioning difficulties of remote control operation but, in some cases, at the expense of health and safety. If this system change from on-board to remote operation had been investigated from a more global view including technical as well as human factors issues, some of these issues could have been resolved prior to implementation. It would have been easy to predict such problems as the visibility restrictions and that the illumination system on the remote mining machine would need to be changed. Many industries other than mining can use this approach to evaluate current and new design. If human factors are ignored until after major decisions have been made, it is difficult to make ore than minor changes. Simply put, the earlier human factors get involved in a design process, the better, and the safer the outcome will be (Chapanis, 1996). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Ergonomics Mining Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Workplace
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: System Interaction Human Factors Mine-safety Mining-industry Occupational-health Occupational Health And Safety Remote Control Operation Safety-measures System Design Underground-coal-mining Underground Coal Mining Work-environment Work Environment Work Organization

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• Series:
  Mining Publications
• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; Pennsylvania
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  PRL - Pittsburgh Research Laboratory
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  58-60
• Volume:
  36
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000824
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 1999 Sep; 36(S1):58-60
• Email:
  lns6@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1999
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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