Journal article
Using systems thinking-based risk assessment methods to assess hazardous manual tasks: A comparison of Net-HARMS, EAST-BL, FRAM and STPA
Ergonomics, Vol.66(5), pp.609-626
2023
PMID: 35866642
Abstract
Formal risk assessment is a component of safety management relating to hazardous manual tasks (HMT). Systems thinking approaches are currently gaining interest for supporting safety management. Existing HMT risk assessment methods have been found to be limited in their ability to identify risks across the whole work system; however, systems thinking-based risk assessment (STBRA) methods were not designed for the HMT context and have not been tested in this area. The aim of this study was to compare the performance of four state-of-the-art STBRA methods: Net-HARMS, EAST-BL, FRAM and STPA to determine which would be most useful for identifying HMT risks. Each method was independently applied by one of four analysts to assess the risks associated with a hypothetical HMT system. The outcomes were assessed for alignment with a benchmark analysis. Using signal detection theory (SDT), overall STPA was found to be the best performing method having the highest hit rate, second lowest false alarm rate and highest Matthews Correlation Coefficient of the four methods.
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- Title
- Using systems thinking-based risk assessment methods to assess hazardous manual tasks: A comparison of Net-HARMS, EAST-BL, FRAM and STPA
- Authors
- Peter McCormack (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical SystemsGemma Read (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical SystemsAdam Hulme (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical SystemsBen Lane (Author) - University of Western AustraliaScott McLean (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical SystemsPaul Salmon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems
- Publication details
- Ergonomics, Vol.66(5), pp.609-626
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- DOI
- 10.1080/00140139.2022.2105959
- ISSN
- 1366-5847
- PMID
- 35866642
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems; School of Health - Psychology
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99659497602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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