Risk Assessment for Subjective Evidence-based Ethnography Applied in High Risk Environment: Improved Protocol

Philippe Fauquet-Alekhine,Sophie Le Bellu,Frédéric Daviet,Guillaume Bouhours,Saadi Lahlou,Marion Buchet,Jean-Claude Granry,Jérôme Berton

doi:10.9734/air/2018/43259

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https://doi.org/10.9734/air/2018/43259

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Abstract

Subjective Evidence-Based Ethnography (SEBE) is a family of methods developed for investigation in social science based on subjective audio-video recordings with a miniature video-camera usually worn at eye-level (eye-tracking techniques are included). Facing a lack of tools for SEBE risk assessment when applied to high risk professional environments (e.g. anesthetists, aircraft pilots, nuclear reactor pilots), a protocol (version 1.1) was successfully developed and tested in nuclear industry with N1=59 participants and presented in a previous article. However, further cases were needed to demonstrate the robustness of the risk assessment protocol in other contexts. Further applications were thus undertaken with N2=75 participants from Air Force army, Police, Medicine and Nuclear industry during work activities lasting from 10 minutes to several hours. SEBE equipment was worn and the original risk assessment protocol was applied and/or discussed between participants and researchers for improvement. The protocol was enriched (version 2.3): 37% items were added. This illustrated the context sensitiveness of this sort of risk assessment. Limits of this new series of tests are discussed.

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Using video recordings allows the researcher to access to the reality of work activities which is one of the major concerns of work analysts, permitting multiple visualisations retrospectively, very useful in the case of complex situations
Subjective Evidence-Based Ethnography (SEBE) is a family of methods developed for investigation in social science based on subjective audio-video recordings with a miniature video-camera usually worn at eye-level
3.1-Can SEBE metrology reduce the reliability of Added comments in 3.3: “need a strap to prevent your movements?

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Using video recordings allows the researcher to access to the reality of work activities which is one of the major concerns of work analysts, permitting multiple visualisations retrospectively, very useful in the case of complex situations. Within the paradigm of Cognitive Task Analysis [1,2], using video recording as a tool for postanalysis of activities is referred to as “process tracing”. It helps the work analyst involving participants in a reflexive analysis of their activity, learning about themselves in action and improving their professional practices if need be. Video recording gives an objective reporting of what happened for an exhaustive recall

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