Human Reliability Associates (HRA) is a Silver Sponsor for Hazards34 Process Safety Conference. Hazards34 will see leaders in process safety and loss prevention come together to share insights into managing major hazards in the industry.
HRA is a leader in Human Factors Risk Management for this area. HRA will be presenting a key paper at the conference examining the integration of qualitative human factors safety critical task analysis with wider engineering risk assessments. Visit us at stand 22 in the exhibition hall from 5th – 7th November 2024 in Manchester, or book a slot to chat with us after the conference.
As Silver Sponsors for Hazards34, HRA will have an exhibition stand during the event, where you can get to know more about the services we offer. You can meet us at Stand 22.
With more than 40 years of experience, we can support you in optimising human performance in the workplace. We emphasise using a systems approach when providing our services such as identifying safety-critical activities, conducting proactive human factors risk assessments, and human error prediction and mitigation.
Our training courses can help you gain an understanding of human factors (including the topic areas outlined in the COMAH Human Factors guide). Moreover, our Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA) course can help you build your confidence in carrying out your own risk analysis.
Our SHERPA software is an all-in-one tool that enables organisations to carry out their own human factors analyses. With features such as a graphical task analysis layout, the generation of risk-informed procedures and easy-to-use analysis tools, the SHERPA software can help reduce time and effort for analyses and provide new leverage for your workforce.
We understand that sometimes it can get busy during conferences, and it may be difficult to get hold of the right people. Hence, to ensure that we can support you with your queries book a slot with us:
Over the years we have presented a number of papers at Hazards conferences. This year we are presenting one paper by consultants Jamie Henderson and Dominic Furniss around engineering risk assessments and human factors. View and download our other recent papers below too.
Authors: Dominic Furnuss, Jamie Henderson, Karam Singh Bhinder
In this paper we introduce an approach to leverage
the output from a single SCTA to support rapid identification of HF issues in related tasks HF GATEWAY (Generic Audit Tool Exercise to Widen and Accelerate Yield). We describe a case study where we created a generic audit tool from an SCTA study, which can subsequently be used by non-HF people to widen and accelerate the HF learning to tasks of a similar nature.
This paper was presented at a preview HAZARDS conference and can be downloaded below.
Authors: Jamie Henderson, Richard Marshall
As part of the planning activity for a significant TAR at a large process plant, shut-down and start-up tasks
were, over a period of several months, subjected to a form of HF Critical Task (CTA). This paper summarises and discusses the general TAR issues identified by these reviews. Areas covered by this paper include: TAR planning, plant issues (e.g. equipment identification, access), procedures, competence, isolation management, purging, gas testing, and leak testing.
This paper was presented at a preview HAZARDS conference and can be downloaded below.
Authors: Jamie Henderson, and Dominic Furniss
This paper explores how SCTA can be integrated with MAH Risk Assessments (e.g. HAZOPS, LOPAs) so there is a closer integration between Human Factors and existing engineering approaches at site. The paper includes guidance on making ALARP judgements and illustrating the degree of credit that can be taken for human performance.
This paper will be presented at this year’s HAZARDS conference.
Access all three papers by completing the form below. We trust you will find them insightful.
If you were unable to meet with us during the conference, you can still book a 30-minute call with u to discuss human factors and how HRA could potentially support your organisation in the future. We look forward to speaking with you.
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