A Practical Guide to Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) 7.0

It has been repeatedly found again and again that human error is partially responsible for accidents of complex systems, and human errors turned out to be the primary contributing cause for about 80% to 90% of the accidents in complex and high risk systems, such as nuclear power plants, aviation, gas and oil, medical domains, etc. Safety research shows that human error is a major cause of industrial and transportation accidents, as opposed to mechanical failures. For example, statistic data...