Human Error Prevention & Human Factors in Safety Training Course

The Human Error Prevention & Human Factors in Safety Training Course equips HSE professionals, operations and maintenance managers, supervisors, engineers, and incident investigators with the knowledge and practical tools needed to understand why people make errors, identify the conditions that make errors more likely, and design work, equipment, procedures, and organizations that prevent errors and limit their consequences. In oil and gas, petrochemicals, power, utilities, aviation, healthcare, transport, construction, and manufacturing, human performance plays a role in most incidents, yet the underlying causes usually lie in task design, workload, fatigue, procedures, interfaces, training, communication, and organizational culture rather than in individual carelessness. Organizations that address these factors systematically achieve fewer incidents, more reliable operations, and a stronger safety culture. The course covers human factors from theory to practical application. Participants learn human factors principles, models of accident causation and defenses, and the types of human failure, including slips, lapses, mistakes, and violations, as well as the performance influencing factors that increase error likelihood, including fatigue, stress, workload, time pressure, poor procedures, interface design, and communication. The program then addresses identification of safety critical tasks, task analysis, human error analysis, and introductory human reliability assessment methods, followed by practical controls, including user-centered procedure and checklist design, effective shift handover and communication, fatigue risk management, control room and interface design, maintenance error prevention, competence assurance, and error-tolerant design. Participants also examine incident investigation that incorporates human factors, just culture and reporting, behavioral safety and leadership, human interaction with automation and digital systems, and how to embed human factors into safety management systems and measure performance. The course is delivered through major incident case studies, task analysis and error identification workshops, procedure redesign exercises, human factors investigation practice, and self-assessments. Participants leave with a safety critical task analysis template, a performance influencing factors checklist, a procedure and checklist design guide, a shift handover and communication checklist, and a human factors incident investigation guide.