Applied Safety & Human Factors Engineering

Preface

Chapter 1: Safety and Human Factors Engineering Fundamentals

1. Safety Engineering and Control
2. Safety Assessment
3. Safety and the Worker
4. Human Factors
5. Safety Program Planning

Chapter 2: Safety and Human Factors Activity Program Planning and Management 

2.1 Product, Equipment, and System Safety Programs

2.1.1 Safety, Reliability, and Maintainability Program Requirements

2.1.1.1 Design Specification

2.1.1.2 Design Review

2.1.1.3 Design for R&M

2.1.1.4 Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis

2.1.1.5 Fault Tree Analysis

2.1.1.6 Human Factors Analysis

2.1.1.7 R&M Modeling

2.1.1.8 R&M Prediction

2.1.1.9 R&M Allocation

2.1.1.10 Development Testing and Demonstration

 2.2 Life-Cycle Cost 

Chapter 3: Design for Safety and Human Factors

 3.1 Reliability and Maintainability Engineering 

3.1.1 Reliability Engineering 

 3.1.1.1 Stress & Strength of Materials

3.1.1.2 Environmental Stresses and Effects

3.1.2 Maintainability Engineering

3.1.2.1 Design for Maintainability

3.1.2.2 Maintainability Analysis

3.1.2.3 Maintainability Improvement

3.1.3 Maintenance Planning

3.1.3.1 Corrective and Preventive Maintenance

3.1.4 Reliability-Centered Maintenance

3.1.4.1 The RCM Process

3.1.5 General Approach to R&M Improvement

3.2 Human Factors and Reliability

3.2.1 Probabilistic Risk and Safety Assessment

3.2.2 Availability Analysis

3.2.3 Maintenance-Induced Issues

Chapter 4: Modeling and Prediction

  4.1 Failure Mode Analysis

4.1.1 Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis

4.1.2 Fault Tree Analysis

4.2 Human Reliability Analysis

4.2.1 The Human as a System Component 

4.2.2 Probabilistic Risk Analysis

4.2.2.1 Performance Shaping Factors

4.2.3 Technique for Human Error Rate Prediction 

4.3 Designing-Out Problems

Chapter 5: Data Collection & Analysis

 5.1 Data Recording & Feedback

5.1.1 Failure Recording, Analysis & Corrective Action

5.1.2 Data Collection 

5.1.3 Data Reporting and Access

5.1.3.1 FRACA Operation 

5.1.3.2 FRACA Responsibility

5.1.3.3 FRACA Reporting

5.2 Data Analysis

1. Basic Probability & Statistics
2. Statistics
3. Exploratory Data Analysis
4. Measures of Central Tendency & Dispersion
5. Probability
6. Axioms of Probability
7. Discrete & Continuous Distributions
8. Probability and Statistical Basis for Failure Analysis
9. Random Variables
10. Probability and Cumulative Density Function
11. Continuous Probability Distributions
12. Exponential Distribution
13. Normal Distribution
14. Lognormal Distribution
15. Other Continuous Distributions
16. Discrete Probability Distributions

5.2.5    Correlation and Regression Analysis

5.3 Failure and Human Error Data

5.3.1 Distribution of Human Performance Data

5.4 Human Error Probability Database

Chapter 6: Testing and Assessment

 6.1 Test Program Effectiveness 

6.2 Strategic Testing

6.2.1 The Research and Development Process

 6.3 Test Program Structure

6.3.1 Test Types

6.3.2 Test Planning Decision Logic

 6.3.2.1 Decision Logic Questions

6.3.2.2 Test Program Options             

6.3.3 Field Test Sizing

6.4 Test Program Specification

Chapter 7: Case Study

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