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Human Factors Regulations in Singapore: A comparison with the UK

In 2017, Singapore introduced the Safety Case Regime under the Workplace Safety and Health (Major Hazards Installations) Regulations, marking a...

Human Performance Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing: A Regulatory Innovation?

In the pharmaceutical sector, human error isn’t just a “mistake”—it can affect patient safety, production and quality....

Human Factors for Biological Containment Labs

Biological containment labs handle some of the most dangerous pathogens, yet human error remains a critical risk factor in their...

On Crafting Effective and Safe Procedures 

In safety-critical industries, having a procedure isn’t enough—it needs to be both accurate and user-friendly. A well-crafted procedure can enhance...

Failure Modes and Mechanisms in Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA) 

In the realm of safety critical tasks industries, identifying both failure modes and mechanisms is essential for effective risk management...

The Psychology Behind Alarm Response: Insights from Human Factors

Alarm systems are vital to process control, but poorly designed alarms can compromise operator performance. We explore the complexities of...

Understanding the HSE’s Human Factors Delivery Guide for COMAH Sites: A Quick Overview for Beginners 

Want to learn more about the 6 topic areas in the HSE’s HF COMAH Delivery Guide? Here, we give a...

Human Factors GATEWAY Approach: Leveraging SCTA Outputs to Identify HF Issues in Related Tasks

This blog introduces the Human Factors GATEWAY (Generic Audit Tool Exercise to Widen and Accelerate Yield) approach. This extends Safety...

Near Miss Management: Formative ideas for a book chapter

I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to contribute a chapter in a book about Near Miss Management. I’ll mainly...

Incident Investigation: Swimlanes & Sequentially Timed Events Plotting (STEP)

Lydea’s latest blog uncovers Swimlane diagrams as a powerful tool for incident investigation. Featuring a detailed case study on the...

CAPA Culture and systems: Organisational learning in pharmaceutical manufacture

At HRA, we have found that reporting culture isn't quite as healthy as we might hope, both in healthcare and...

SYSTEMS Critical Task Analysis (SCTA): A Case Study for Quality Improvement (QI)

This is our latest blog post on SYSTEMS Critical Task Analysis (SCTA) and how it can enhance Quality Improvement (QI)....

SCTA Workflow: Where the rubber hits the Human Factors Roadmap

Following her last blog, Lydea shows how the SCTA process can be used as a way to implement the HF...

Critical Competences: SCTA & risk-informed competence standards

Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA) is a well-established process in the UK onshore and offshore petrochemical and oil and gas...

SHERPA: Innovative Software for HFI in Defence (Part 1)

Mary Goode recently joined HRA to develop and manage our accounts in the Defence sector. Mary has worked in Defence...

In Praise of Positive PIFs (Performance Influencing Factors) in Human Factors Risk Assessments

Performance Influencing Factors (PIFs) are factors that can increase or decrease the likelihood of human error occurring. Negative PIFs increase...

Navigating the Human Factors Roadmap: Part 1

In this blog series, Lydea describes the steps of the HF Roadmap and how the SCTA process aligns with the...

Organisational learning – how mature is your organisation?

Following his last blog on safety culture in healthcare, Steve describes the traits of a healthy reporting culture, its impact...

Best practices for procedure writing (Part 2)

My intention in this blog post is to add an extra layer of reflection. Some of this will be a...

Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA): A former Offshore Inspector’s perspective

I’ve noticed several recent posts claiming that for companies in the UK Oil & Gas sectors "there is a regulatory...

Applying Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA) to a hazardous task: Indoor Rope Climbing 

Recently, I started taking on indoor rope climbing. Having been on both ends of the rope, I was curious about...

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