Workshop
Background
It is widely accepted that Human Error is the dominant contributor to major accidents in high-hazard industries, despite advances in engineering safeguards and process safety. Nevertheless, the resources used address human factors issues in sectors such as nuclear power generation and oil and gas production are a fraction of one percent of the resources devoted hardware focused accident prevention. Much of this disparity arises from a lack of awareness in engineering communities and education regarding the tools available to minimise human errors and optimise human performance. This seminar aims to raise the awareness and provide case studies for participants in the use of these tools.
Approaches to minimising human caused losses are based on two types of methodologies:
Proactive approaches which allow potential human errors and the factors driving the errors to be identified and optimised.
Retrospective analyses of incidents to identify the accident sequences and the direct and precursor events that can be optimised to minimise the likelihood of a recurrence.
This seminar will illustrate, using case studies from a range of industries, the tools that are currently available to support both of these approaches within an integrated framework. This addresses proactive error reduction and retrospective Incident investigation using two approaches:
SHERPA (Systems based Human Error Reduction in Process Analysis) and TABIE (Task Analysis Based Incident Evaluation).
What will I learn
- Hierarchical Task analysis
- Failure mode identification
- Identification and optimisation of Performance Influencing Factors driving the likelihood of errors
- Application of these factors to producing risk aware procedures and training
- Incident investigation
- Quantification of human error probabilities
- Case studies illustrating how these tools have been successfully applied in industries such as oil and gas production, pharma manufacturing rail and marine transport.
- Interactive workshop to illustrate the tools being applied
What can I take away
Participants will be provided with free fully functional demonstration copies of the software tools discussed in the webinar, a certificate of attendance and electronic copies of course materials.
Instructor and Company background
Dr David Embrey Founder and Managing Director of Human Reliability Associates (HRA). HRA is one of the longest established human factors consultants in Europe and has been established for more than 40 years.
David developed and ran the Human Factors module of the Process Safety and Loss prevention MSc course at Sheffield University for 30 years and has been actively involved in developing and supporting many other training courses in the Human Reliability Associates Training Academy. These have included safety critical sectors such as rail and marine transport, oil and gas, pharma manufacturing, nuclear and conventional power, healthcare, and medical device design. He has been as an expert witness in a number of public enquiries following major accidents, such as Three Mile Island (nuclear) Kings Cross and Clapham Junction (Rail), Piper Alpha and Longford (oil and gas).
He has developed and applied a number of tools and techniques for human reliability analysis such as SHERPA (Systems based Human Error Reduction in Process Analysis) and TABIE (Task Analysis Based Incident Evaluation).