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Download fileDeveloping safety signs for children on board trains: findings from Great Britain
conference contribution
posted on 2011-01-07, 14:50 authored by Patrick WatersonPatrick Waterson, Cara Pilcher, Sian Evans, Jill MooreEvery year a significant number of young children are injured as a result of accidents that occur on board
trains in Great Britain. These accidents range from being caught in internal doors, slips, trips and falls and
injuries caused by seats. We describe our efforts working with RSSB to design a new set of safety signs in
order to help prevent such accidents occurring. The research involved running a set of workshops with
young school children (aged 4-10, n=210) and showing them examples of existing train signs and gathering
the requirements for new designs. A second set of workshops with these children was used to evaluate the
new signs based on the outcomes from the earlier workshop. We describe our findings alongside a set of
outline guidelines for the design of safety signs for young children. A final section outlines possibilities for
future research.
History
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Citation
WATERSON, P. ... et al, 2010. Developing safety signs for children on board trains: findings from Great Britain. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 54th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 27th September - 1st October, pp. 788-792.Publisher
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (© Loughborough University)Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2010Notes
This is a conference paper. It was presented at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 54th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA, 27th September - 1st October 2010.ISBN
0945289375;9780945289371Publisher version
Language
- en