Accident Investigation & Reconstruction: Human Factors

Capabilities and Services

• Risk Communication: Warnings & Safety Information

  Safety information for products, vehicles, and professional equipment can be accurately developed and carefully evaluated to clearly communicate risk. Exponent's human factors scientists leverage expertise in human cognition, perception, behavior, and information processing to support your development of safety warnings.

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• Human Factors in Transportation Accidents

  The role of human error and human capabilities, including perception, decision making, physical conditions, and psychological states, are critical components in transportation accident investigations. Exponent's human factors teams conduct thorough research to evaluate how operators interact with motorized vehicle controls and systems and how human errors contribute to accidents.

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• Consumer Product Design, Usage & Injury Analysis

  The risk of a product causing injury is an ever-present concern for businesses. Exponent's team helps businesses mitigate this risk with expert analysis of user interaction and design features for safety hazards in devices ranging from infant and child products, to household appliances, to pool equipment.

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• The Role of Visibility, Attention & Memory in Accidents

  If your accident investigation doesn't consider whether there are contributing human factors like cognition, perception, and behavior, you're likely not going to get the complete picture of how and why accidents occur. Exponent scientists and engineers conduct thorough research to examine the role that human performance issues and behaviors may have played in accident causation.

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• Summary of Services

  For 50+ years, we've thrived on solving unstructured problems that require bespoke solutions. Some of our services include:

  • Vehicle, equipment, product, and site inspections
  • 3D laser scanning and model creation for accident analysis
  • Accident analysis, including investigation, causation, and reconstruction
  • Human and surrogate testing
  • Analysis of the effect of warning, safety information, and training on user or operator behavior
  • Advanced incident data analysis with access to large-scale databases to evaluate and identify potential hazards and hazard patterns
  • Data collection, including securing, and preserving accident evidence in compliance with established standards
  • Quantitative, semi-quantitative, and qualitative risk assessment
  • Analyzing effects of fatigue, alcohol and drugs, inattention, distraction, and environmental factors in accidents
  • Analyzing systems issues relating to safety
  • Conducting visibility and sightline analysis
  • Nighttime visibility and photography analysis
  • Developing graphical methods for expressing the idea of relative risk and the concept of a rare event