Making the world more reliable

The home of Human Factors Risk Management.

Trusted and respected for over 40 years

Founded in 1982 Human Reliability Associates (HRA) is one of the longest serving Human Factors consultancies in the world. HRA is internationally recognised and respected for helping major organisations improve quality, safety and achieve higher productivity. 

We provide consultancy, training, and software, as well as undertaking research.

SHERPA software helps you optimise your organisation’s most critical tasks and reduce human error

The SHERPA software platform is an integrated set of tools designed to support human factors analyses in safety critical industries. Over the past 40 years, these tools have been shown to make substantial improvement to safety, quality, and efficiency.

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Human Reliability Academy

In-house, open and online training

The Human Reliability Academy is our online learning platform that contains a growing library of courses. It plays a key role in our blended approach to online learning as it includes video talks, quizzes, activities, and workshops which can be complemented with live webinars.

We have free mini-courses, short courses and in depth courses which are now applied by people around the world. 

Get the human touch with our team of expert consultants in a variety of human factors

Human Reliability Associates (HRA) has a strong reputation for proactive Human Factors risk assessments of critical tasks.

However, our consultancy work can include a variety of human factors topics, e.g. auditing and helping organisations develop effective policy for managing human reliability, alarm design and control room audits, critical communication assessments, workload and staffing assessments, and incident investigation. 

With decades of experience,  Human Reliability can protect the organisation from critical risks and help achieve quality, safety and productivity goals.