The Failure Route between Active and Latent Error in Bus Accident

It is imperative to examine the differences between active and latent errors in bus accidents. This research aims to study and assess human factors to determine the impact of behavior has in this domain. For this research we examine a set of 452 bus accident investigation reports. Nine evaluators we...

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Published inIEEE access Vol. 7; pp. 164941 - 164951
Main Authors Zhang, Xianyong, Hu, Wenwu, Zhou, Jianlan, Zuo, Qingjun, Wu, Ruilin, Tang, Zhixin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Piscataway IEEE 2019
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Accident investigation
Accident investigations
Accidents
Evaluation
failure analysis
Forensic engineering
Human factors
Reliability
Reliability analysis
Reliability aspects
Road accident
Safety
Statistical analysis
Supervision
Taxonomy
Training
Violations
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Summary:It is imperative to examine the differences between active and latent errors in bus accidents. This research aims to study and assess human factors to determine the impact of behavior has in this domain. For this research we examine a set of 452 bus accident investigation reports. Nine evaluators were invited to assess human factors using the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) framework. The inter-evaluator reliability is assessed using the Krippendorff's coefficient. Interdependencies between adjacent horizontal factors and the statistics for human factors were analyzed using odds ratios and lambda and chi-square methods. There are twenty-one significant associations between human factors and the adjacent levels of HFACS. Among them, organizational process and inadequate supervision, inadequate supervision and personal readiness, and personal readiness and violations appear to be the most significant. The four most significant HFACS factors are organizational process, personal readiness, inadequate supervision, and violations. These together form a route of failure. The active error of violations is closely related to the latent errors organizational process, inadequate supervision and personal readiness. Efforts to reduce the incidence of these three errors will significantly decrease the rate of bus-related accidents.
ISSN:2169-3536
2169-3536
DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2949858