Formation of a special interest group to represent human factors in rail was approved during the meeting of the Board in May 2008.
Rail Human Factors covers a breadth of topics. As a snapshot, below are some of the "hot topics":
- Fatigue and vigilance
- Level crossings (road and rail driver behaviours and design of crossings)
- Post-incident stress
- Rail resource management
- Organisational considerations (e.g. "just culture")
- Organisational awareness of Human Factors (and impacts thereof)
- Risk management, risk taking, etc
- Integration of Human Factors into the design of rail systems
- General human error and error management
RAILsig Conference
Work was commenced to host the conference this year (2010) in association with the Annual conference, however timeframes were considered to be too tight to pull together a conference that delivers both content and quality.
The SIG team have approached the NSW committee regarding hosting the conference in Sydney in 2011, in association with the HFESA annual conference, to allow more time to plan and prepare.
Nic Doncaster CPE
Co-Chair RailSIG