Isolation Experiments and Their Role in Risk Mitigation During Pandemics

Abstract

Abstract The human is the most important element of the ecosystem. Due to the fact that the technosphere depends on the human life, the priority is to save the human health and to provide high performance even in stressful situations as it helps to mitigate risks when critical situations arise including at industries. In order to study the human behaviour under stress in more details, we suggest putting humans into the artificial ecosystem where the human is the key element. At this, the decomposition of such complex system is the external environment, the life support system arranges by technical means and the human acts as a loading element. Such approach should be applied to control the condition of the environment surrounding the human and to be able to model various scripts of the environmental effect on humans and vice versa. Such study has shown that human performance and general condition are affected by tiredness, the time spend in isolation, frequency of critical situations. The global situation in 2019-2020 and self-isolation during the pandemics allow expanding this study and evaluating the effect of isolation on the technosphere safety. The result of this work is the well-developed comprehensive human-machine system within which the study is carried out. Recommendations obtained during the calculation experiments are compared with the natural data. On these grounds, conclusions are drawn that allow one to mitigate risks under conditions of isolation.