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Measuring safety in aviation
1 October 2020 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyAs part of their SMS, aviation service providers are required to develop and maintain the means to verify the safety performance of their organisation and to validate the effectiveness of safety risk controls. ...
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Reactie op Rolf Hoving
1 January 2019 | Centre for Applied Research Technology -
Measuring Safety in Aviation: Empirical Results about the Relation between Safety Outcomes and Safet
18 May 2017 | Centre for Applied Research in EducationThe following research paper is published for The Seventh International Conference on Performance, Safety and Robustness in Complex Systems and Applications. See the content of the paper below.
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Can the STAMP Model Serve in Establishing a Common Language?
15 February 2017 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyA symbiotic relationship between human factors and safety scientists is needed to ensure the provision of holistic solutions for problems emerging in modern socio-technical systems. System Theoretic Accident Model ...
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Exploring the Diversity in Safety Measurement Practices: Empirical Results from Aviation
26 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyA literature review, which was conducted during the research project “Measuring Safety in Aviation – Developing Metrics for Safety Management Systems”, identified several problems and challenges ...
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Editorial of the 1st International Cross-Industry Safety Conference proceedings
26 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThe Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences was proud to organize the 1st International Cross-industry Safety Conference (ICSC) dedicated to both practical and theoretical aspects of safety. The conference ...
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How Completely and Similarly Do Safety Authorities Address Hazards Posed by New Technology?
26 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThe continuous increase of accident and incident reports has indicated the potential of drones to threaten public safety. The published regulatory framework for small drones is not visibly based on a comprehensive ...
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Measuring Safety Through the Distance Between System States with the RiskSOAP Indicator
26 January 2017 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyModern engineering systems are complex socio-technical structures with a mission to offer services of high quality, while in parallel ensuring profitability for their owners. However, practice has shown that ...
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Exploiting data from safety investigations and processes to assess performance of safety management
13 November 2016 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThis paper presents an alternative way to use records from safety investigations as a means to support the evaluation of safety management (SM) aspects. Datasets from safety investigation reports and progress records ...
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Safety Culture Development: the Gap Between Industry Guidelines and Literature, and the Differences
8 September 2016 | Faculty of TechnologyReason’s typology of safety culture (i.e. Just, Informative, Learning, Flexible and Reporting cultures) is widely used in the industry and academia. Through literature review we developed a framework including ...
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Do experts agree when assessing risks? An empirical study
23 May 2016 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyRisk matrices have been widely used in the industry under the notion that risk is a product of likelihood by severity of the hazard or safety case under consideration. When reliable raw data are not available to feed ...
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Critical review of safety performance metrics
19 April 2016 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyVarious tools for safety performance measurement have been introduced in order to fulfil the need for safety monitoring in organisations, which is tightly related to their overall performance and achievement of their ...
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Combining Soft System Methodology and Pareto Analysis in Safety Management Performance Assessment
19 April 2016 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyAlthough reengineering is strategically advantageous for organisations in order to keep functional and sustainable, safety must remain a priority and respective efforts need to be maintained. This paper suggests the ...
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Using STPA in the evaluation of fighter pilots training programs
17 December 2015 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThis paper presents how the application of the STPA method might support the evaluation of fighter pilots training programs and trigger procedural and technological changes. We applied the STPA method by considering ...
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Editorial STAMP EU 2015
17 December 2015 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyFollowing the successful 3rd European STAMP Workshop in Amsterdam (5-6 October 2015), organised by the Aviation Academy of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, we are pleased to present to the academic and ...
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Human Error Views: Measuring the Distance between Academia and Industry
3 December 2015 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyThe paper presents a framework that through structured analysis of accident reports explores the differences between practice and academic literature as well amongst organizations regarding their views on human error.
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Effects of Employment Costs and Task Load on Human Error
1 December 2015 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologyMarket competition and global financial uncertainty have been the principal drivers that impel aviation companies to proceed to budget cuts, including decreases in salary and work force levels, in order to ensure ...
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Evaluating Advancements in Accident Investigations Using a Novel Framework
22 July 2015 | Centre for Applied Research TechnologySafety is monitored by various proactive and reactive methods, including the investigation of adverse accidents and incidents, which are collectively known as safety investigations. In this study we demonstrate how ...
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Applied Simulation and Optimization: In Logistics, Industrial and Aeronautical Practice
14 May 2015Presenting techniques, case-studies and methodologies that combine the use of simulation approaches with optimization techniques for facing problems in manufacturing, logistics, or aeronautical problems, this book ...
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Large Neighbourhood Search and Simulation for Disruption Management in the Airline Industry
7 April 2015 | Faculty of TechnologyThe airline industry is one of the most affected by operational disruptions, defined as deviations from originally planned operations. Due to airlines network configuration, delays are rapidly propagated to ...