Utilization of Human Factors Research Results in Korean railway industry

초록

By 2011, draft of HFs management program and HEAR(Human Error Analysis and Reduction), competent program for safety critical workers and many outcomes have been developed. Not only there was no regulation on HFs management for train operating company, but also lack of HFs specialists in companies make it difficult for the utilization of HFs research results. Though the ratio of HFs cause in railway accident in Korea is low, but more than 60% of train accidents(collisions, derailment and rollingstock fire accidents) were directly related in HFs in recent 5 years. The cause of recent KTX derailment accident in tunnel were “train controllers’ lapse” and “maintenance personals’ slip”, which he forgot his previous control action and attention failure. Utilization of variou HFs research results are descrived in this paper