Abstract

This chapter presents a dynamic analysis of the safety behaviour of operators and the organizational environment in which they work. This environment contains a set of factors (variables) that affect human behaviour in the context of industrial safety. These behavioural factors are identified from an initial analysis of the principal factors that influence how operators behave safely. The focus of this chapter is the explanatory factors that underlie safe behaviour and the causal relationships that link these factors, from a combined perspective of system dynamics and fuzzy logic. System dynamics is used to accurately define the causal interactions between this set of explanatory factors and represent them from a systemic and dynamic viewpoint. Fuzzy logic is subsequently used to take into account the qualitative and inexact nature of the variables involved. Taken together, system dynamics and fuzzy logic is used to develop a model that more accurately describes the safe behaviour of operators.

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