Human factors related to major road traffic accidents in China.

Conclusions: The generic HFACS failure types were interpreted and applied successfully to the road safety context, and such examination of major accidents has provided significant findings concerning the main contributing factors of those accidents. Using the OR technique, this study has demonstrated a number of associations between the upper level and adjacent lower levels in the entire system and has found the routes to failure, which is particularly important for developing countermeasures and remediation strategies, as it ensures that these countermeasures are targeted to a wider range of systems. Furthermore, these findings demonstrate the efficiency and applicability of the HFACS as a retrospective tool for the analysis of major road traffic accidents. PMID: 31710507 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Traffic Injury Prevention - Category: Accident Prevention Authors: Tags: Traffic Inj Prev Source Type: research