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HUMAN FACTORS INTERVENTION MATRIX

HUMAN FACTORS INTERVENTION MATRIX

This portion of the guide is designed to help you generate
innovative ideas or solutions for addressing the problems you
identified during your HFACS analysis. While such solutions may
be called by many different names, such as "interventions;'
"corrective actions" or "risk mitigation strategies;' the challenge is
the same.

Generating novel or creative solutions is a difficult task.
Sometimes people have difficulty discovering new ways of
solving a problem or they may feel uncomfortable thinking
"outside their box." As a result, they may limit their approach,
focusing on only a very narrow set of options. Other times,
people tend to look for "the best way" to attack an issue, hoping
to find the one "silver bullet" that will completely eliminate the
problem.

However, such panaceas rarely exist and in the search for such
a solution, other opportunities for intervening are often ignored,
or overlooked.

The best approach for generating innovative ideas to solve a
problem is to first come up with as many possible solutions as
you can.

However, a large number of solutions is not enough. Solutions
should also address the problem from a variety of different
approaches or perspectives. In other words, interventions need
to attack the same problem from many different angles.

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