Identifying Human Failure



Module One
Human Factors view of accident causation.

  1. Investigating active failures and latent conditions
  2. Discuss how humans can cause or contribute to accidents
  3. After an accident involving human failure the what should the investigation try to understand
  4. How to prevent similar accidents in the future

Module Two
Understanding human failure.

  1. Investigating human error and violations together with slips, lapses and mistakes
  2. Discussing why do mistakes occur? and factors which contribute to people making mistakes
  3. How we can reduce mistakes
  4. What are typical violations
  5. What are typical causes of violations

Module Three
Safety Critical Task Analysis.

  1. What is a Safety Critical Task?
  2. What is Safety Critical Task Analysis?
  3. Safety Critical Task Analysis: Screening, prioritizing, tasks analysis and human error analysis
  4. Performance influencing factors
  5. Evaluating performance influencing factors
Our Identifying human failure eLearning course contains three modules, complete with animation and interactive tasks.

When we understand the human factor, we can understand misconceptions about the mistakes and failures we make and how to avoid them.

Category

Human Factors

Duration

One Hour

Experience Level

Entry

Learning Objectives

  • What are active failures?
  • What are latent conditions?
  • How people can cause, contribute or mitigate the consequences of accidents
  • Investigating the causes of accidents
  • What are slips, lapses and mistakes?
  • Why do mistakes occur?
  • Factors which contribute to people making mistakes
  • How you can reduce mistakes?
  • Violations and shortcuts
  • What is a Safety Critical Task?
  • What is Safety Critical Task Analysis?
  • Screening, prioritizing, tasks analysis and human error analysis
  • Identify tasks that are safety critical
  • Priorities the list of Identified critical tasks
  • Understand the tasks
  • Human Error analysis
  • Performance influencing factors
  • Determine & implement measures to improve human performance