Abstract
Safety Management Systems (SMS) normally base on the assumption that safety can be guaranteed through a prescription of a one-best-way of activity performance. Any deviation from this one-best-way is considered a violation. Main objective of safety measures is therefore to eliminate variability in human performance. A more comprehensive safety perspective recognizes that the operating conditions under which activities must be performed are never ideal. The human ability to adapt performance depending on the current situation is consequently considered a strength that should be supported in order to enhance safety. The possibility to deploy this strength should therefore be guaranteed. For this purpose, a safety tool – the Measure Evaluation Tool (MET) – that supports the definition of an appropriate human scope of action was developed. This is following presented.
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The authors like to thank the Federal Office of Civil Aviation in Switzerland for the financial support of the project.
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Waefler, T., Nisoli, G., Gugerli, R. (2019). Measure Evaluation Tool MET: Promoting Safety by Optimizing the Human Scope of Action. In: Arezes, P. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Factors. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 791. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94589-7_3
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