Tackling Procedural Non-Compliance in the Workplace: Insights and Solutions
Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) are essential, but why do operators deviate from them? Our Managing Director, David Embrey, explores how non-compliance may not always be about negligence, but rather systemic challenges and opportunities for process improvement.
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.
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
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.