Forensic Engineering and the Importance of the Human Factor

Abstract

Forensic engineering and its significance from the perspective of history, its importance in the interdisciplinary context. Disciplines involved with their findings in expert assessment. Questions of expert activities at present. Technical and legislative aspects of expert activities. Personality factors in expert activities and their reflection in expert assessment. The influence of human factor involved in the causes giving rise to exposed situations which entail the origin of expert assessment. The importance of personality factors. Assessment of the reliability of the human factor, i.e. the probability of correctly performing the required activities during a given period of time or a situation which may give rise to chain reactions that lead to mistakes of human factor. Human reliability, or more precisely human mistakes as a very complex and unpredictable parameter. When assessing it, it is therefore necessary to understand the fact that this is not an isolated step or a single decision, but a set of causes, influences and factors (including their mutual combinations) that make up the overall reliability.Possibilities of applying forensic engineering into practice. Defects of expert assessment and their consequences. The most common and the most recent faults occurring in expert assessment.