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Non-technical skills in rail accidents: panacea or pariah?

Non-technical skills in rail accidents: panacea or pariah?
Non-technical skills in rail accidents: panacea or pariah?
Non-technical skills (NTS) have been identified as a causal factor in several rail accident investigations, resulting in a substantial movement within the UK rail industry to incorporate NTS training into its competence management systems. However, there are questions regarding the application of NTS within the wider sociotechnical systems perspective of human factors. In this paper, we review the evolution of NTS, present case studies of accident investigations, and offer our own perspectives on investigating the role of NTS in accidents.
non-technical skills,, rail accidents, sociotechnical systems
Young, Mark
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Steel, Tabitha
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Young, Mark
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Steel, Tabitha
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Young, Mark and Steel, Tabitha (2017) Non-technical skills in rail accidents: panacea or pariah? Sixth International Rail Human Factors Conference, , London, United Kingdom. 06 - 09 Nov 2017. 10 pp .

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Abstract

Non-technical skills (NTS) have been identified as a causal factor in several rail accident investigations, resulting in a substantial movement within the UK rail industry to incorporate NTS training into its competence management systems. However, there are questions regarding the application of NTS within the wider sociotechnical systems perspective of human factors. In this paper, we review the evolution of NTS, present case studies of accident investigations, and offer our own perspectives on investigating the role of NTS in accidents.

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Published date: 6 November 2017
Venue - Dates: Sixth International Rail Human Factors Conference, , London, United Kingdom, 2017-11-06 - 2017-11-09
Keywords: non-technical skills,, rail accidents, sociotechnical systems

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Local EPrints ID: 481007
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/481007
PURE UUID: 7b1388a5-7ca6-4f3e-93ca-99de800bee68
ORCID for Mark Young: ORCID iD orcid.org/0009-0001-2594-453X

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Date deposited: 14 Aug 2023 16:58
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:20

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Author: Mark Young ORCID iD
Author: Tabitha Steel

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