Human Factors

Managing Human Failures

Were you aware that human failure plays a role in 80% of all accidents? Yet this is a facet of risk management which is often overlooked, even by some of the biggest companies. We all make mistakes irrespective of how motivated we are to do the right thing. But being able to predict and manage how your staff will behave in certain scenarios can mean the difference between a minor incident and a major accident.

For COMAH sites, identification of Human Factors is an essential part of the risk assessment process. Site operators must understand which activities are critical to safe operation and what can be done to optimise human performance to protect people and the environment.

Our highly-skilled consultants can tackle error reduction in a structured and proactive way, helping to make it an integral part of the safety management system.

Our HFL Risk Services team has extensive experience in these issues and can help you by:

• Employing both qualitative and quantitative Human Reliability Assessments (Human HAZOPs)
• Feeding the results of assessments into traditional engineering risk assessment tools and methodologies such as event and fault trees
• Developing procedures for safety critical operations

Ask about our Human Factors Masterclass today.