Patent Document ID: 20040256718
Application ID: 10825775
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for performing human factors process failure modes and effects analysis for a process, the method comprising: identifying at least one task involved in the process, the task including at least one human activity; describing the human activity using at least one verb; automatically identifying a human error potentially resulting from the human activity, the human error potentially resulting from the human activity being related to the verb used in describing the task; identifying a likelihood of occurrence of the human error; identifying a likelihood of correction of the human error; identifying a potential severity of an effect of the human error; automatically calculating a risk of potential harm from the likelihood of occurrence of the human error, the likelihood of correction of the human error, and the potential severity of the effect resulting from the human error; and comparing the risk of potential harm with a risk threshold to identify appropriateness of corrective measures to one of reduce or eliminate the risk of the potential harm resulting from the human error.