Introduction to Human Factors in Process Safety Training Course

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A 1/2-day course providing delegates with an introduction to human factors, how they can impact your operation and how to recognise, evaluate and manage human failure and optimise human performance. Provides practical knowledge and techniques to help improve safety in safety critical industries such as chemical manufacture, energy and rail. Delivered using a mixture of presentations, facilitated discussion and interactive sessions.

We often deliver this course in-house, allowing us to customise the content to the client’s organisation.

Course Content

Introduction to Human Factors in safety critical applications

1. An explanation of human factors, ergonomics and human performance.
2. The importance of human factors and its relevance to safety critical industries.
3. Factors that influence human performance.
4. The key legislation, standards and guidance.

Management of Human Factors risk

1. Overview of human error.
2. The typical causes of human failure.
3. Tools and methods to identify, assess and mitigate human factors risk.
4. An overview of HEART+; Human Error Assessment and Reduction Technique.
5. Consideration of human factors in LOPA (layer of protection analysis).

Who should attend

Anybody with a responsibility for people, safety and their working environment. Particularly, managers, operators, supervisors who are interested in reducing the risk associated with human error.

Pre qualification

This workshop assumes no-prior knowledge of human factors.

After this Workshop you will be able to:

• Describe how human factors influence safety.
• Explain the key causes of human error.
• Identify ways to reduce the likelihood of human error.
• Apply tools and techniques to manage human factors risk.
• Integrate human factors with other risk management activities such as LOPA and ALARP demonstration.

What you will get

• A copy of the course slide set for each delegate.
• A Certificate of Attendance for each delegate that attends the full course (4 hours of CPD).

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Price

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Course Enquiries

If you have any further questions, please call +44 (0)1462 713313, email support@methodprosafe.com or contact us online. If you wish to proceed, check your diary and reserve a place.