China Safety Science Journal ›› 2022, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (6): 23-30.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2022.06.2233

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Study on factors leading to human errors in railway maintenance

LI Xiang1(), LI Xiao1, WANG Song2, LEI Miaomiao1, LAI Bentao1   

  1. 1 School of Transportation Engineering, East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang Jiangxi 330013, China
    2 Department of Nanchang Locomotive, China Railway Nanchang Group Co., Ltd., Nanchang Jiangxi 330002, China
  • Received:2022-01-14 Revised:2022-04-15 Online:2022-06-28 Published:2022-12-28

Abstract:

In order to reduce fault rate of railway locomotives and ensure their safe operation, DEMATEL and ISM were used to study contributing factors to human errors in railway maintenance. Firstly, DEMATEL method was used to study degree and attribute of each factor on the system, and then ISM method was adopted to clarify hierarchical structure and influence path among influencing factors, and mutual influence between the factors was analyzed. The results show that maintenance procedures, education management, sense of responsibility, cognitive mode and tendency, work mood and pressure, safety behavior, and maintenance experience are the key factors leading to human errors in railway maintenance, and the first 6 factors form the main influence path.

Key words: railway maintenance, human error, influencing factor, decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory(DEMATEL), interpretative structural model (ISM)