Introduction to Human Factors

One day

Especially suitable for managers, safety engineeers and safety professionals.

  • What is Human Factors?

  • The role of Human Factors in major accident prevention.

  • Understanding error, non-compliance and behaviour

  • Human Factors principles and concepts

  • Key Human Factors methods

  • Implementing Human Factors

Face to face - In house training

human factors training

Safety Critical Task Analysis

Two and three day options

Practical hands on course

Especially suitable for risk assessors, safety engineers and safety professionals

  • Role and purpose of safety critical task analysis

  • Identifying and prioritising safety critical tasks

  • Task walk through talk through

  • Assessing safety critical tasks - task, error and Performance Influencing Factors assessment

  • Judging likelihood of human failure and suporting risk assessment

  • Human Factors of Hierarchy of Risk control and reducing risk as low as reasonably practicable

  • Using results for procedures, training, task design, staffing levels and design

Safety critical task analysis

Human Factors of design and engineering

One and two day options

Especially suitable for engineers

  • Human Factors issues - interfaces, workstations and workspaces

  • Human Factors design principles and concepts

  • Key design methods including

    • Task requirements analysis

    • User needs analysis and Target Audience Descriptions

    • User testing and prototyping

  • Human Factors design standards

  • Human Factors Integration

    • Early Human Factors Analysis

    • Human Factors screening and scoping

    • Human Factors Integration plans

    • User testing and acceptance

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Management of Organisational Change

One day

Especially suitable for managers and safety professionals

  • Role of organisational change in major accidents

  • Recognising organisational change

  • Screening and grading organisational change

  • Organisational change risk assessment

  • Mitigating organisational change risks

  • Governance of implementation of change

  • Organisational change management arrangements

management of organisational change

Fatigue Risk Management

One day

Especially suitable for managers, safety professionals and Human Resources

  • What is fatigue?

  • Role of fatigue in incidents and human health

  • Fatigue risk factors

  • Fatigue risk assessment - designing shift systems

  • Real time fatigue risk assessment

  • Fatigue risk management good practice and standards

  • Investigating fatigue in incidents

  • Fatigue risk management system

    • Policy and management procedures

    • Staff training

    • Assessment and management of fatigue

    • Key Performance Indicators

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Human Factors in incident investigation

One and two day options

Especially suitable for anyone involved in incident investigation

  • Human Factors principles

  • Examples of blaming without learning

  • Understanding human behaviour and error

  • Cognitive bias in investigations

  • Key methods

    • Human Factors 5 whys and root cause analysis

    • Time lines

    • Human Factors barrier analysis

    • Mapping the unfolding mindset

    • Fatigue investigation

    • Human error and violation decision modelling

    • Accimaps

    • Human Factors of hierarchy of risk control and reducing risk as low as reasonably practicable

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