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Human Factors: ePrevention, safety, risk analysis

Within the Human Factors research line, the TICs area focuses its activity in two main fields: the training on Occupational Risk Prevention (ePrevention), and the analysis, simulation, and decision-making assistance during safety crises.

Occupational accidents prevention

It involves the application of e-Learning methodologies and tools, and intelligent systems for the improvement of the training on Occupational Risk Prevention (ORP) as a method for the reduction of the work accident rate.

The TICs area, together with external collaborators, has identified that the problem of work accidents in various industry sectors is caused, to a great extent, by a substandard training of the workforce. The objective of this applied research line is to use e-Learning tools and methodologies and intelligent systems so as to achieve a training adapted to the diverse kinds of workers, situations, and work environments. In that respect intelligent systems, which incorporate expert knowledge, are applied to:

• Identification of the worker profile.
• Adaptation of the ORP training according to the situation and profile.
• “In-situ” assistance in decision-making in the area of occupational safety.
• Diagnosis of occupational risks situations.
• Tutoring, monitoring, and evaluation of the alumni-workers in ORP.

With all of this, it is intended to encourage a higher awareness about the risks inherent to the tasks to perform, and a safer execution of works, which will reduce the number of work-related accidents and illnesses.

Partners and Collaborators:

• Iberdrola
  (www.iberdrola.es)
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  ACEX
  (www.acex.ws)
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  LEIA Foundation
  (www.leia.es)
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  AIDICO
  (www.aidico.es)
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  Estudios COEX
  (www.estudioscoex.es)
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  CTIC Foundation
  (www.fundacionctic.org)
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  AITEMIN
  (www.aitemin.es)
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  FENIE
  (www.fenie.es)
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  Psicotec
  (www.psicotec.es)
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  Gijon Chamber of Commerce
  (www.camaragijon.es)
• 
  Valladolid Chamber of Commerce
  (www.camaravalladolid.com)

Other partners and collaborators

Crisis situations

It deals with the use of intelligent systems for the modelling or those factors, social behaviours, and human organizations that get involved in the management of safety risk situations. This kind of situations requires decision making processes that affect very diverse groups of people, with different functions and decision-making powers. Meanwhile, the decision-making, which in occasions has to be done within a limited time frame, has great repercussions on a great number of human organizations.

The TICs area researches the application of intelligent systems to the modelling, analysis, decision-making assistance, and training of the various human organizations that form the management structures in safety crises, starting from the interactions between human groups and their actions when trying to solve this kind of situations.

Currently, the TICs area cooperates as a member of the consortium for the European BEMOSA project (Behavioral Modelling for Security in Air Transport), co-financed within the VII Framework Programme and led by Technion, Israel. The objective of this project is to create models of social behaviour during security threats at airports, for their later use in the training of the different groups employed at the airports. In this project the intelligent systems are applied in the following tasks:

• Case-Bases Reasoning (CBD) for the modelling of various situations.
• Intelligent systems that model expert knowledge of rules (fuzzy, neuro-fuzzy systems, etc.).
• Decision support systems (decision trees, supervised and non-supervised).

Related Publications

• R. García, J.M. Benitez, G. Sainz. "Feature Selection for Time Series Forecasting: A Case Study". Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2008), pp. 555-560 Barcelona (Spain). September 2008.

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