Human Failures & Safety Critical Task Analysis

This Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors (CIEHF) Accredited Short Course is designed to provide attendees with the necessary baseline knowledge and skills to be able to start undertaking Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA).

At the end of the course you will be able to:

  1. Define what is meant by Human Factors
  2. Understand the key legislation and guidance that is relevant to the application of Human Factors within the UK oil & gas sector
  3. Understand how human failures can contribute to accidents, and be able to identify credible human errors and violations
  4. Identify PIFs that can make human failures more likely, and understand how systems, tasks and processes can be designed to minimise their effects
  5. Understand the process to be followed for human failure identification and assessment, and the different approaches that are available
  6. Understand the detailed steps involved in SCTA
  7. Demonstrate experience in working through the SCTA process, including initial screening of activities and detailed HFA.

Outline

  • What is Human Factors?
  • Key Human Factors legislation and guidance – UK oil & gas & chemicals sector
  • Human errors and violations
  • Introduction to Performance Influencing Factors (PIFs)
  • Introduction to human failure identification & assessment
  • The SCTA process
  • Safety Critical activity screening
  • Detailed SCTA and Human Failure Assessment (HFA)
  • Successful implementation of SCTA

Who should attend?

Employees of companies who have a regulatory requirement to carry out SCTA. Anyone who may be required to plan, facilitate and/or take part in SCTA, including Health & Safety Managers, Process Safety specialists, training managers, supervisors, plant operators and maintainers.

What prior study is recommended?

Some understanding of health & safety risk assessment and risk management principles is desirable.

Course Details

  • Start Date
  • 1st – 2nd April 2025
  • Schedule
  • 09:00 – 11:30 and 13:00 – 15:30 each day
  • Location
  • Online, British Summer Time
  • Award
  • Certificate of Attendance
  • Price (excluding VAT)
  • GBP 900

Derek Porter

BSc (Hons) Human Psychology, C.Erg, MCIEHF, MBPsS

Derek Porter is a Chartered Ergonomist & Human Factors Specialist (C.ErgHF) and Human Factors Technical Expert with over 30 years’ experience providing Human Factors consultancy across safety-critical sectors in the UK and internationally, with a particular focus on the oil & gas & chemical, rail and nuclear industries. He is experienced in providing Human Factors Integration (HFI) management and Human Factors Engineering (HFE) support to major projects and is the author of the IOGP / Energy Institute Recommended Practice (RP) guidance document ‘Human Factors Engineering in Projects’ (Report no. 454, 2020) and the UKOPA Good Practice Guide – ‘HumanFactors: An Introduction for Pipeline Operators’. Derek has expertise in Human Reliability Assessment techniques and has extensive experience of providing Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA) support to UK onshore (upper-tier COMAH) and offshore operators, including writing company procedures on SCTA, facilitating screening sessions, running Human Failure Assessment (HFA) workshops, and providing SCTA training. Dereks other areas of expertise include providing Human Factors input to Safety Reports and Safety Cases; development of competence management frameworks; safe staffing studies; alarm system design and assessment; Human Machine Interface (HMI) assessment; ergonomics design of control rooms and workplaces; development and update of procedures and emergency contingency plans; and incident investigation. Derek is an experienced trainer.

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