Traditional efforts to deal with the enormous problem of workplace safety have proved
insufficient, as they have tended to neglect the broader sociotechnical environment that …

An important part of the application of sociotechnical systems theory (STS) is the
development of methods, tools and techniques to assess human factors and ergonomics …

Purpose As the level of implementation of Industry 4.0 increases, misalignments between
adopted technologies and organizational factors may result in benefits below expected. This …

Human factors systems approaches are critical for improving healthcare quality and patient
safety. The SEIPS (Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety) model of work system …

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices,
globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require …

This article describes the origins of the work system model and the Balance Theory, which
were developed as a way of integrating knowledge about work from various bodies of …

Safety climate represents the meaningfulness of safety and how safety is valued in an
organization. The contributions of safety climate to organizational safety have been well …

A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New
England Workplace (CPH-NEW) developed an evidencebased approach to address three …

Theoretical and practical approaches to safety based on sociotechnical systems principles
place heavy emphasis on the intersections between social–organisational and technical …

Human factors is generally defined as the “scientific discipline concerned with the
understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the …