The UK National Health Service is being brought to its knees by a perfect storm of difficulties: poor flow through hospitals resulting in crowded emergency departments and long ambulance waits, and ...

For more than two decades, experts have been pleading for the human factors lessons learned from aviation safety to be applied to the growing toll of iatrogenic injuries in medicine. Now a new set of ...

Workplace safety methods focus on controls implementation, while Human Operational Performance Theory (HOPT) focuses on risk reduction and safety improvement. Safety in industries such as energy, ...

Human error, wrote James Reason, is both universal and inevitable. The principles are so important that the famed human factors specialist listed them at the top of ...

In the early morning of March 26, a 948-foot vessel struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Md., causing its collapse. Preliminary evidence shows that the container ship Dali lost power ...

Tesla’s latest crash statistics paint a counterintuitive picture: even as its Autopilot system faces high profile failures and federal scrutiny, the raw numbers still suggest that human drivers are ...