Understanding the HSE’s Human Factors Delivery Guide for COMAH Sites: A Quick Overview for Beginners
Want to learn more about the 6 topic areas in the HSE’s HF COMAH Delivery Guide? Here, we give a quick overview of these areas and how they can you help improve Human Factors management.
SCTA Workflow: Where the rubber hits the Human Factors Roadmap
Following her last blog, Lydea shows how the SCTA process can be used as a way to implement the HF Roadmap in practice
Navigating the Human Factors Roadmap: Part 1
In this blog series, Lydea describes the steps of the HF Roadmap and how the SCTA process aligns with the roadmap.
Organisational learning – how mature is your organisation?
Following his last blog on safety culture in healthcare, Steve describes the traits of a healthy reporting culture, its impact on organisational learning and the need to adopt a proactive approach to risk and safety.
Applying Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA) to a hazardous task: Indoor Rope Climbing
Recently, I started taking on indoor rope climbing. Having been on both ends of the rope, I was curious about how this would look from a Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA) perspective.
A System Safety Revolution: Drawing Parallels Between Formula 1 and Human Factors
In the heart-pounding world of Formula 1, the phrase “life on the limit” once carried a chilling connotation. Formula 1’s early years were fraught with danger, prompting a paradigm shift from accepting risks to drivers, stewards and the crowds, to embracing system changes and safety enhancements.
Human Error: Errordinary to the Extraordinary!
The same psychological mechanisms that underly errors in our ordinary, everyday life are also at play in the most extraordinary events that we see in the headlines. The positive message is that we can understand these mechanisms and do something about it.
HRA Coronavirus (COVID-19) capability statement
It can be challenging meeting regulatory expectations, achieving action deadlines, project schedules and annual objectives during these unprecedented times. As a direct result of this, you may be mainly focusing on your core business and revising project targets downwards
Human Factors: A better depth of explanation
I really like this interview by Feynman where he is asked about the feeling of attraction and repulsion between two magnets. However, it is hard for him to explain what is going on in a way that will satisfy his audience, without going into a deeper level of explanation that they may not understand.
