Impressive reductions in injury rate were achieved in a cooperative program that included industrial human factors. The other players in the program include the medical department nurses, the safety engineers, production engineers, supervisors and production workers. The explanation offered for the program's apparent success is that responsibility and accountability for industrial human factors improvement is distributed among the various departments involved.
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