Build competence and authorisation requirements for anyone working on human factors engineering.
Human Factors Engineering and Improving Job Performance Efficiency
A concise, decision-focused programme covering human factors engineering end to end.
Course Overview
Safety performance on human factors engineering degrades quietly during periods when nothing goes wrong. The cost of an incident involving this strand of occupational health and safety lands on production, insurance, licence and reputation at once. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on the occupational health and safety capability are used deliberately. The course leaves participants able to diagnose weaknesses in human factors engineering before they become incidents. The programme uses small-group work so that each participant's treatment of the wider occupational health and safety agenda is examined, not just described. Post-incident reviews keep identifying weaknesses in the occupational health and safety discipline that were visible long before the incident. Buying a tool rarely fixes human factors engineering; the underlying capability has to be built internally first. The course gives participants a defensible structure for this aspect of occupational health and safety and the judgement to adapt it. The final module sets out how progress on the occupational health and safety discipline will be evidenced six months later.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Write procedures for human factors engineering that can be followed under real operating pressure.
Build the internal capability for human factors engineering rather than depending on external support indefinitely.
Design a practical operating method for human factors engineering that fits the organisation's size and maturity.
Align human factors engineering with the wider objectives of the work site rather than optimising it in isolation.
Address the human and organisational factors that make human factors engineering fail.
Carry out a structured risk assessment of human factors engineering and rank findings by consequence.
Who Should Attend
Site and operations supervisors applying human factors engineering daily.
Occupational health practitioners monitoring exposure from human factors engineering.
Contractor and subcontractor supervisors performing human factors engineering.
Training and development staff building internal capability in human factors engineering.
Officers preparing reports on human factors engineering for boards or oversight committees.
Engineering and maintenance staff whose work involves human factors engineering.
Course Modules
Human factors engineering: occupational health and long-term exposure
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The permit regime human factors engineering needs, and the one it does not
- Ask the people doing human factors engineering what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Record who is authorised to work on human factors engineering and when authorisation expires.
- Define acceptance criteria for human factors engineering in advance.
- Close out actions on human factors engineering rather than leaving them open indefinitely.
Session 2Making near-miss reporting on human factors engineering safe to do
- Verify permits covering human factors engineering are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
- Check that lessons from human factors engineering reached other sites doing similar work.
- Investigate the last incident involving human factors engineering to root cause, not to immediate cause.
- Compare the cost of human factors engineering with the cost of its absence.
Human factors engineering: contractors and shared workplaces
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The paperwork for human factors engineering that is actually needed
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for human factors engineering, do not just publish it.
- Set out the decisions in human factors engineering that require sign-off and by whom.
- Set the review interval for human factors engineering and who attends.
- Prepare the summary of human factors engineering that senior management will read.
Session 2Writing a procedure for human factors engineering people can follow at 3 a.m.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for human factors engineering.
- Confirm that controls on human factors engineering sit as high up the hierarchy as reasonably practicable.
- Draft the minimum viable safety procedure for human factors engineering.
- Set leading indicators for human factors engineering that predict rather than count.
Human factors engineering: competence, authorisation and supervision
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What has to be agreed before work on human factors engineering starts
- Establish what evidence demonstrates human factors engineering is under control.
- Prepare the response for the most likely failure in human factors engineering.
- Estimate the resource human factors engineering requires to run as designed.
- Audit application of human factors engineering controls at the workface.
Session 2Building the method for human factors engineering step by step
- Assess long-term health exposure created by human factors engineering and arrange surveillance.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in human factors engineering short and non-punitive.
- Record what was learned when human factors engineering did not go as planned.
- Build the internal briefing that explains human factors engineering to those affected.
Human factors engineering: hazard identification and risk assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Rescue arrangements for human factors engineering that have been rehearsed
- Reduce the variation in how human factors engineering is carried out between teams.
- Close out corrective actions on human factors engineering with a named owner and date.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for human factors engineering are proven before work starts.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for human factors engineering.
Session 2Who is competent to work on human factors engineering, and how you know
- Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on human factors engineering.
- Set escalation thresholds for human factors engineering that work out of hours.
- Agree the smallest change to human factors engineering that would be visibly useful.
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting human factors engineering.
Choose the package that suits you
Silver Package
At least 3 people
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
Gold Package
At least 3 people
- 5-night stay in a 5-star hotel
- Workshop or Program Participation
- Airport Transfers
- Customized Badge
- Expert Mentorship (Private Sessions)
- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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