Recent conceptual and methodological advances in behavioral safety research afford an
opportunity to integrate past and recent research findings. Building on theoretical models of …

The objective of this review was to examine the evidence for the link between fatigue and
safety, especially in transport and occupational settings. For the purposes of this review …

The extent to which people can focus attention in the face of irrelevant distractions has been
shown to critically depend on the level and type of information load involved in their current …

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

Drilling for oil and gas on offshore installations is a hazardous occupation, and requires
personnel to maintain high levels of work situation awareness (WSA). This paper presents a …

In daily life (eg, in the work environment) people are often distracted by stimuli that are
clearly irrelevant to the current task and should be ignored. In contrast, much applied …

This research investigated the effects of cognitive failure on workplace safety and accidents
over 2 studies. It was hypothesized that cognitive failure would directly predict safety …

Individual differences in lapses of attention were examined in the present study. Participants
performed various attention control, working memory, and reaction time (RT) tasks to assess …

Perceptual load has been found to be a powerful determinant of distractibility in laboratory
tasks. The present study assessed how the effects of perceptual load on distractibility in the …

A new approach to testing mindfulness in relation to perceptual and cognitive factors is
presented. In two studies a total of 142 participants were tested using a measure of …