A Guide To Task Analysis: The Task Analysis Working Group

Abstract

This book describes the task analysis approach, and gathers together and comprehensively describes the application of 25 major task analysis techniques, organizing them into a practical user guide. The Guide is aimed at industrial practitioners such as design engineeres, safety assessors, ergonomics practitioners, trainers, procedures writers, project managers, etc., with or without previous task analysis experience, who have a need to establish task requirements or to carry out task assessments. Examples of when and where Task Analysis could usually be applied are the following: - Where safety is important - Where it is necessary to provide assurance that task allocation and feasibility are appropriate - When operational feedback raises concerns over a particular human-machine interface - When the requirements for productivity have changed - Where personnel characteristics are different - Where different crewing or organizational structure is intended - Where a significantly different technology is being used - Where the same task has to be performed in a different environment