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Xin Ren, Delft University of Technology

12/13/2024 PhD Highlights

Human and Organizational Factors Influencing Structural Safety: Analysing critical HOFs behind human errors in structural design and construction

Human and Organizational Factors Influencing Structural Safety: Analysing critical HOFs behind human errors in structural design and construction

Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. Pieter H.A.J.M. van Gelder, Dr.ir. Karel C. Terwel

Keywords: Structural safety, human error, Human and Organizational Factors, Human Reliability Analysis, structural design and construction.

This dissertation focuses on studying the impact of Human and Organizational Factors (HOFs) on structural safety from a socio-technical systems perspective. Firstly, critical HOFs in structural design and construction tasks were identified through a comprehensive literature review and a survey study. Then HOFs’ contribution to human error occurrence in tasks was quantified via a structured expert judgement. Lastly, a methodology to model HOFs’ dynamic influence on structural reliability was developed. This dissertation contributes to a quantitative approach towards enhanced structural reliability analysis by bridging human reliability to structural reliability to account for the human and organizational influences on structural safety.

Selected publications:

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  • Thesis repository
  • Selected publications:
    • Ren, Xin, Karel Terwel, and Pieter van Gelder (2024). “Human and organizational factors influencing structural safety: A review”. In: Structural Safety 107, p. 102407. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strusafe.2023.102407.
    • Ren, Xin, Gabriela Nane, Karel Terwel, and Pieter van Gelder (2024). “Measuring the impacts of human and organizational factors on human errors in the Dutch construction industry using structured expert judgement”. In: Reliability Engineering & System Safety 244, p. 109959. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ress.2024.109959.
    • Ren, Xin, Karel Terwel, Ming Yang, and Pieter van Gelder (2024). “Critical Human and Organizational Factors for Structural Safety in the Dutch Construction Industry”. In: American Journal of Industrial Medicine. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajim.23681.

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