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Human Factors and Sustainable Development - Some Lessons from Human Factors and Safety Management

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Summary, in English

Mankind is already spending beyond the capacity of its planet and trends look very scaring. Big changes in human behaviour are urgent. As pointed out by others there are many ways how Ergonomics/Human Factors/ could contribute to such changes. The aim of this paper is to discuss some lessons learnt from safety performance in aviation and trans¬formed to sustainability, especially the concepts sustainability management systems and resilience sustainability cultures adapted to different levels of the global socio-technical-economic system and to different contexts.

Publishing year

2010

Language

English

Pages

437-440

Publication/Series

Neue Arbeits- und Lebenswelten gestalten

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

GFF

Topic

  • Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Keywords

  • systems perspective
  • sustainable development
  • sustainability management system
  • sustainability
  • resilience sustainability culture
  • ergonomics
  • human factors

Conference name

The 56th GfA Spring Congress 2010

Conference date

2010-03-24 - 2010-03-26

Conference place

Darmstadt, Germany

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3-936804-08-9