HFACS definition

HFACS means human factors analysis classification system.
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Examples of HFACS in a sentence

  • The Joint Services Safety Chiefs Conference (JSSC) requested that the services modify and adopt a version of the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS).

  • Originally, the HFACS is addressed in four hierarchical levels which a higher level will affect the lower level.

  • Thus, the human factors analysis and classification system (HFACS) was developed to investigate aviation accidents, basing on Reason’s ‘Swiss Cheese’ model for latent and active failures 26.

  • This chapter will address a modified framework based on the human factors analysis and classification system (HFACS) which was built for the aviation industry to investigate the role of human errors in lifeboat and its launching system accidents.

  • A HFACS for lifeboat accidents would be presented in the following section.