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{{Short description|Method to identify causes of accidents and analysis to plan preventive training}}

The '''Human Factors Analysis and Classification System''' (HFACS) identifies the human causes of an accident and providesoffers atools toolfor toanalysis assistas ina theway investigationto processplan and targetpreventive training and prevention efforts.<ref name="Approach_2004">[https://archive.today/20040803144310/http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/MEDIA/approach/issues/julaug04/HumanFactors.htm "The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS),"] ''Approach'', July - August 2004. Accessed July 12, 2007. </ref> It was developed by Dr. Scott Shappell of the [[Civil Aviation Medical Institute]] and Dr. Doug Wiegmann of the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois]] at Urbana-Campaign in response to a trend that showed some form of human error was a primary causal factor in 80% of all flight accidents in the Navy and Marine Corps.<ref name="Approach_2004"/> HFACS looks at four levels of human failure, including unsafe acts, preconditions for unsafe acts, unsafe supervision, and organizational influences.<ref name="Approach_2004"/>

HFACS is based in the "[[Swiss cheese model]]" of [[human error]]<ref>Reason, J. [1990] ''Human Error''. Cambridge University Press</ref> which looks at four levels of human failure, including unsafe acts, preconditions for unsafe acts, unsafe supervision, and organizational influences.<ref name="Approach_2004"/> It is a comprehensive human error framework that folded [[James Reason]]'s ideas into the applied setting, defining 19 causal categories within four levels of human failure.<ref>HFACS Analysis of Military and Civilian Aviation Accidents: A North American Comparison. ISASI, 2004</ref>

[[File:Swiss cheese model of accident causation with additional labels.png|alt=Swiss cheese model of accident causation|thumb|Swiss cheese model of accident causation]]

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==See also==

* [[CrewAccident Resource Managementclassification]]

* [[Crew resource management]]

* [[National Fire Fighter Near-Miss Reporting System]]

* [[SHELL model]]

* [[Human reliability]]

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