Informa Connect Academy is offering a range of courses in Human Factor Safety over the coming year (see dates below).

Courses are designed to explain worksite risks associated with human behaviours, and present methods and techniques for enhancing safety.

Human Factors Analysis for Incident Investigation

• Understand the relationship between human factors and human reliability.
• Understand human variability and non-compliance in the context of event investigations within large and complex socio-technical systems.
• Recognise the human factors contribution to incidents in complex circumstances through the application of a structured taxonomy of human Actions/Inactions and Performance Shaping Factors (PSF’s).
• Understand that human actions/inactions are not a hazard but are the result of hazardous contextual conditions in the environment and workplace that go unchecked.
• Understand the relationship between human error, loss of control and the failure of prevention and recovery risk controls.
• Linking the investigation findings to Existing Critical Risk Controls (ECRCs), to continually improve critical control management.

Human Factors & Error Management for Safety Critical Industries / Human Factors & Error Management for Railway

• Fundamentals
  • Understand the evolution of human factors, its current scope and how it may contribute to addressing future safety challenges
  • Understand human error within the context of significant rail safety incident investigations.
  • Incorporate practical proactive error management strategies
  • Address human performance limitations that impact effective decision making and increase the probability of error occurrence
  • Identify social and group influences that shape human performance
  • Adopt a systematic human factors analysis method for incident investigations to better identify errors and error producing conditions.
• Advanced
• Understand the impact of infrastructure, facility and equipment design on human performance and the pros and cons of automation and advanced technology
• Understand the incidence of mental health issues in the workplace and various strategies to support workers
• Identify cultural influences that shape human performance including the practical application of a fair and just culture approach to consequence management
• Adopt a proactive human factors analysis approach to identify the triggers that may lead to a potential fatal/ critical risk event and fix conditions before they cause problems.

Visit the Human Connect Academy for more information.