Cognitive Abilities Predict Safety Performance: A Study Examining High-Speed Railway Dispatchers

Table 1

The award and penalty scores within HSR dispatcher’s job evaluation.

Items	Events	Executive branches	Score change
Award items (increase score)	-- The valuable proposal was adopted	China State Railway Group Co., Ltd.	30
	-- Preventing accidents or mitigating impact	Railway Bureau	20
	-- Other cases	Dispatching station	10
		—	1–50
Penalty items (reduce score)	−− Class A violations occur, such as the failure to send the correct order	—	−10
	−− Class B violations occur, such as the improper dispatching of passenger trains	—	−7.5
	−− Class C violations occur, such as the improper dispatching of freight trains	—	−4
	−− Class D violations occur, such as incomplete dispatching order	—	−1.5
	−− Other cases	—	−1–−50