Human Factors Seminar

Offered by AARS

Have you registered yet?

November 6–7, 2018
Chicago
at the Sheraton O'Hare

You don't want to miss this human factors seminar presented by the industry's leading
experts in accident investigation and attention related behavior:
Gary Wolf of Wolf Railway Consulting
and Randy Jamieson of Atticus Consulting

Registration for AARS Members: $549
Non-Members: $649*
Includes 2-day seminar with lunch each day.
Special discounted hotel rate: $149/night.

DAY 1

HUMAN FACTORS KEYS:

1. Overview of top human factor causes
2. Statistical review of where we are in the rail industry with human failure
3. The old way vs. new way of dealing with human failure
4. The role of discipline in human failure accidents
5. Failures of typical investigative techniques
6. Looking at the organization as a source of human failure
7. What is a safety culture
8. Safety leadership — What are the tenets of good safety leadership
9. Safety Management Systems (SMS)
10. Behavior Based Safety (BBS)
11. Root Cause Analysis of Human Factor Accidents
12. Detailed walk through for conducting investigation of human failure incidents
13. The importance of rules testing and how to make good rule tests
14. Tips for prevention of typical human failure derailments/incidents
15. Case study — Class tabletop simulation of a human factor accident investigation

DAY 2

THE SCIENCE OF HUMAN ATTENTION:

The CAPT(TM) Training Program consists of 11 eleven (11) interrelated modules that build on one another to introduce and explain key aspects of the science of human attention. These modules are as follows:

1. Introduction to Human Attention-related Railroad Accidents
2. Limits of Visual Perception
3. Limits of Human Spatial Attention
4. Dangers of Operation Overload and Multitasking
5. Dangers of Operational Underload and Mind Wandering
6. The Link Between Stress and Human Attention
7. Worry, Rumination and Unfinished Tasks and How They Affect Attention Performance
8. How Habits Can be Exploited by Unusual Situations to Create Attention-related Errors
9. Fatigue, Nutrition, Exercise and Their Role in Attention Performance
10. Training Attention Control
11. Deliberate Practice and the Power of Intrinsic Motivation

Questions?

Carrie Foor, 331-643-3369

*Note: AARS annual membership is $75 per person. Learn more HERE.

Presented by the American Association of Railroad Superintendents