On Crafting Effective and Safe Procedures
In safety-critical industries, having a procedure isn’t enough—it needs to be both accurate and user-friendly. A well-crafted procedure can enhance safety, reduce risks, and streamline operations, but only if it’s easy to follow and understand.
The Psychology Behind Alarm Response: Insights from Human Factors
Alarm systems are vital to process control, but poorly designed alarms can compromise operator performance. We explore the complexities of alarm management and highlights how human factors can optimise control system design.
Incident Investigation: Swimlanes & Sequentially Timed Events Plotting (STEP)
Lydea’s latest blog uncovers Swimlane diagrams as a powerful tool for incident investigation. Featuring a detailed case study on the AB Specialty Silicones explosion in 2019, learn how this tool can map out complex processes, identify latent conditions and active failures, and enhance your understanding of critical events.
Critical Competences: SCTA & risk-informed competence standards
Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA) is a well-established process in the UK onshore and offshore petrochemical and oil and gas sectors. It is a systematic process for the assessment and management of human failure.
SHERPA: Innovative Software for HFI in Defence (Part 1)
Mary Goode recently joined HRA to develop and manage our accounts in the Defence sector. Mary has worked in Defence for over 35 years and, in a series of blogs over the coming months, she will be exploring how she thinks HRA’s innovative software tool, SHERPA, could be used to support Human Factors Integration (HFI) in Defence. In this blog, she discusses how SHERPA can support Tasks Analyses and explore some of the key technical and project management benefits.
Chocolate Pancakes: From hierarchical task analysis to optimising human performance
With it being pancake day in the UK (everyone makes pancakes on Shrove Tuesday), I thought I would write about them.
