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Humans In Complex Engineering Systems Sharing Good Practice Workshop
Publisher: Royal Academy of Engineering | ISBN: 1903496160 | edition 2004 | PDF | 78 pages | 3,34 mb
The Royal Academy of Engineering report "Risks Posed by Humans in the Control Loop provided the following conclusions:
• There are wide differences between different industrial sectors and professions in their approach to integrating the "human operative" into the control loop. While the differences are explicable in terms of history and tradition they do raise significant concerns given many of the similarities in terms of the problems being addressed and the control requirements of the various systems.
• We found little evidence of extensive concerted exchange of experience and best practice across the various sectors and believe that this represents a major lost opportunity to improve performance, reliability and safety.
• This study was only able to scratch the surface of a complex and widespread issue. It is proposed that a major seminar be organised to test the validity of our conclusions across a wider group of engineering professionals. If there is general agreement consideration should given to mechanisms for information and experience exchange across relevant industries and sectors. These conclusions seem very significant and to justify a major effort to devise mechanisms to facilitate the identification of best practice in different sectors and to permit these to be transferred and adopted where appropriate. The report’s recommendation to hold a "major seminar" was accepted in principle, but it was felt that it would be valuable to gather more evidence in support of the report’s findings before taking action on this.
The workshop reported here was designed to do just that. It was structured to have two parts. In the first, experts were invited to present their views and experience. In the second the participants were divided into small discussion groups and invited to look in detail at a particular aspect of the "Human-Technology System Interface.
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