NCJ Number
122008
Journal
Alcohol, Drugs and Driving Volume: 5 Issue: 3 Dated: (July/September 1989) Pages: 173-184
Date Published
1989
Length
10 pages
Annotation
In recent years, National Transportation Safety Board investigators have delved increasingly into the "why" of human errors accidents.
Abstract
It has now become fairly routine for the human performance investigator to dig deeply into individual "life-style" issues in order to learn what may have affected the performance of a pilot, engineer, ship's captain, or truck driver. Virtually always, an attempt is made to reconstruct the on-duty/off-duty/rest/sleep/wake history of the key operational personnel involved in an accident. Frequently, data are ambiguous, so the true incidence of fatigue as a causal or contributory factor is largely unknown. (Author abstract)