Question

Question#3 Discuss the following statement (3.a) “human errors (bring forth) accidents, and if earlier we looked at safety technology as a means of protecting us from machines, now technology must be protected from us.” Include in your response (3.b) a discussion of safety/risk assessment.

Answer 1

3A) The above statement says that earlier the age was of mechanical engineering thus machineries were prone to accidents and not at all the user friendly. On those days nobody thinks of the comfort of human beings , rather they were more prone to the solidity of the products but nowadays features and gadgets are electronic thus they are quite user friendly and just because of this peoples are getting addicted to these things which isharmful for the peoples.

3B) Safety or risk assessment are done on the basis of man machine tests of comfortability which is a part of industrial and or organisation psychology. Through this tests user friendliness of the products are measured and based on which the popularity depends on the market.