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About the Course
Regardless of industry type or sector, accident statistics appear to be dominated by the contribution of human error. This is hardly surprising since humans are involved in the design, construction, maintenance, operation and management of complex socio-technical systems across any safety critical industry such as transport, mining, construction, oil and gas, power and water utilities, essential and emergency services and healthcare service delivery.
While human error is a normal part of our human makeup, the consequences of errors in any industry can be disastrous and the subject of public outrage, exhaustive inquiries and drawn out legal action. The cost of human error in the workplace is also considerable:
- BP estimated that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulted in costs that exceeded USD $40 billion.
- According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), airports have estimated that ramp accidents cost over USD $10 billion each year.
- The Flight Safety Foundation report that over 38,000 commercial aircraft land in an unstable condition every year, causing potential maintenance and inspection delays.
- In healthcare the direct medical costs of preventable clinical incidents arising from human error, have been estimated at $2 billion each year in Australia.
This 7-week Fundamentals of Human Factors and Error Management for Safety Critical Industries program will provide participants with a good understanding of the key factors that influence human error and practical strategies for making systems more error tolerant. Upon completion of this program participants have the option of completing a further 4 weeks for the Advanced Human Factors and Error Management for Safety Critical Industries program.
Several practical case studies presented throughout will reinforce generic human factors issues and management solutions across various industries. A comprehensive suite of practical tools, templates and resources are provided to take back and apply in your own workplace.
Key Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- 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
Who Will Benefit
This training program is designed for those individuals seeking a comprehensive understanding of applied human factors in any workplace.
Expected participants include:
- Operations and Engineering Senior Managers
- Team Leaders and Supervisors
- Human Resource Managers
- HSE and WHS Managers, Investigators and Auditors
- Industry and WHS Regulators
- Quality, risk, compliance and assurance managers
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Testimonials
“The group discussions were relevant and very interesting. Appreciate the extra reading material -was very valuable. I now have the confidence to ask the relevant questions.”
Principal Procurement Officer, Public Safety Business Agency
“Very interesting insights. Fantastic presentation. Great practical commercially focused course.”
Legal, Monash University
“Trainer was very engaging, informative and friendly. She made us feel comfortable to ask questions.”
Category Analyst, Work Safe
“Excellent understanding of content and very engaging.”
Senior Consultant, Downer
“Very satisfied with workshop. Really learned a lot and looking forward to apply it if needed”.
Senior Executive Bus Safety, SBS Transit, Singapore
“A highly practical and repeatable process that encourages consistency in event investigation”
Investigator/Auditor, Energy Queensland
“Instructor has good practical knowledge of incident investigations”
Safety Manager, Civil Aviation Authority, Nepal
Benefits Of Learning Online
Informa Corporate Learning’s online courses are new digital, interactive and engaging educational experience designed to maximise learning for professionals with busy schedules and/or small training budgets.
Our online courses are perfect opportunity for busy professionals as they require just 2 hours per week of your time and include an interactive forum for you to ask direct questions about challenges you are facing to expert course leaders.
Modules are released on a weekly basis, so you can pace yourself alongside your peers and you will have access to a comprehensive set of assets to support your learning such as video content, quizzes and case studies.
Watch webinar
What Lies Beneath: Investigating the Human Factor in Workplace Accidents
Human factors contribute to significant workplace incidents and accidents, but many investigation analysis methods only deal with human factors at a surface level.
In this half-hour webinar, Dr Graham Edkins discussed various strategies for interrogating human factors issues at a more granular level based on a contemporary understanding of human error, causation and systems.
WEBINAR: Improving The Quality Of Significant Workplace Incident Investigation Analysis
Our expert course instructor Dr Graham Edkins delivered a webinar on the need for strategies for improving the quality of significant workplace incident investigation analysis and addressing the pre-occupation with the search for a set of overly broad latent failures.
Watch webinar:
Agenda
MODULE 1:
INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN FACTORS
- Human factors in context
- Human factors: Past, present and future
- The human factors contribution to significant safety accidents
- A simple human factors model
- Case study: Off the rails
- Course activity: Towards 2040 – What will be the human factors challenges in your industry in the next 20 years?
MODULE 2:
INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN ERROR
- Introduction to human error
- What causes error?
- Different types of errors
- The positive side of error: Human compensatory ability
- Course activity: Which error type is it?
MODULE 3:
PRACTICAL ERROR MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
- Organisational error management strategies
- Managing unintended actions (slips & lapses)
- Managing intended actions (mistakes & violations)
- Error management checklists for inspectors, investigators and auditors
- Course activity: Quiz
MODULE 4:
HUMAN PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS
- Human information processing
- Task demands: Overload and underload
- Fitness for duty
- Managing human performance limitations in rail
- Case study: Airtime
- Course activity: Participants will examine a flight safety incident to identify human performance limitations and practical management strategies
MODULE 5:
SOCIAL & GROUP INFLUENCES ON PERFORMANCE
- Role, status, authority and conformance
- Strategies to improve team performance
- Case study: Safety incident
- Course activity: Participants will design a program to
- manage authority gradients
MODULE 6:
A HUMAN FACTORS ANALYSIS METHOD FOR INCIDENT INVESTIGATION
- Human factors analysis methods
- Errors and Error Producing Conditions (EPC’s)
- Reactive Loss of Control Analysis (R-LOCA) model
- Case study: Revisiting off the rails
- Course activity: Quiz
MODULE 7:
MAJOR COURSE EXERCISE #1 – REACTIVE HUMAN FACTORS ANALYSIS
Participants will be provided with the raw data from a video driven safety incident and be required to:
- Use the R-LOCA model to classify the errors and contributing factors; and
- Identify practical strategies to reduce the potential consequences of any errors identified
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