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Psychological Human Factors

Unit code: HES6745

Credit points12.5 Credit Points
Duration

1 Semester
Contact hoursEquivalent to 36 hrs contact time or 150 hrs total study time
CampusOff-Campus
Prerequisites
Nil
Corequisites
 
Nil

Related course(s)

A core unit of study in the
 
 

Aims and objectives

The aim of this unit is to develop in students an understanding of how organizations create the circumstances in which human error flourishes.

Teaching methods

Distance Education via Blackboard and email

Assessment

Three Individual Assignments (worth 100%)

Generic skills outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will:
  • Accumulate working knowledge of current models of human information processing
  • Understand one current approach to human error modelling
  • Apply this knowledge in a real-world environment.

Content

Topics include: models of human information processing (perception, cognition, stimulus response), the study of human limitations and capabilities (stereotypes), understanding human error.

Reading materials

Hollnagel, E (1998) Cognitive Reliability and Error Analysis Method (CREAM), Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford.
Reason, J (1997) Managing the Risks of Organisational Accidents, Ahsgate, England
Various papers of Rasmussen, J
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