While attending a course on avalanche safety, students learned how to analyze a snowpack. They subsequently prepared a landing site for an EMS helicopter. This required assessing the hazards to a ...

The transportation industry has a human factors problem. Consider this: From 2005 to 2009, the volume of fatal crashes involving large trucks or buses dropped by a third. At the time, it felt like ...

Research from the U.S. National Safety Council indicates that human factors contribute to more than 90% of workplace ...

Dr Mike Rejman is fond of quoting the fractured rhythms of a US secretary of defence when addressing themes common to human factors. On 12 February, 2002, a perplexed press corps at a Department of ...

Nigerian researcher Edward Isoghie has earned international recognition for his groundbreaking work at the intersection of ...

The article opens with a personal account of the author's grueling schedule as an early-career aircraft mechanic, illustrating how extreme fatigue and long hours were once common, underscoring the ...

Employers are told that they need to follow certain safety regulations to keep people safe when they’re working at heights. But—to be blunt—those measures aren’t enough. Every day, human factors like ...

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Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare technology, robotic surgery has emerged as a ...

In Part 2, we discussed the risks of wire strikes and visual illusions. An in-depth knowledge of snow behavior and weather trends can help markedly in predicting the composition of snow covering a ...