Human Factors in Major Accident Hazard Regulation and Guidance: A Descriptive Overview
Human Factors are now central to managing major accident risk. But how are they actually embedded in regulation and guidance around the world?
The ONE Thing That Will Actually Improve Your Human Factors Program in 2026
What’s your ONE thing for 2026?
What I have learned is “We’ll implement Human Factors” isn’t a plan. It’s six topics and fifty things pretending to be one.
It’s Time: A Human Factors Delivery Guide for Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Quality
The crisis is here. The regulatory gap is costing pharma billions and impacting patients
Data from the OECD shows that drug shortages have been rising since 2019. Many are due to manufacturing issues and product quality deficiencies.
The Railway Men of Bhopal: How Recovery Shaped the Impact of Disaster
Inspired by The Railway Men, this blog uses the Accident Sequence and Precursor (ASAP) model to show how post-incident actions can feed into organisational learning and recovery, helping to build more resilient systems, and why these lessons remain relevant for today’s high-hazard industries.
AI Agents and Human Performance: A SHERPA Approach to Hybrid Systems
AI is accelerating into safety-critical workplaces, but are we designing it thoughtfully?
We explore a fundamental challenge: When AI systems are designed around work-as-imagined rather than work-as-done, we risk disrupting safe practice rather than enhancing it.
How SCTA Builds Reliability and Resilience: A Whole-System Approach to Understanding Work
Reliability prevents failure.
Resilience helps us recover from it.
SCTA can strengthen both.
Human Factors in Control of Work Systems
Control of Work (CoW) systems form the backbone of safe operations in high-hazard industries. Yet, their success often hinges on human interaction.
Meeting PABIAC’s Human Factors Objectives (Part 3): Getting Started with SCTA
This is the final instalment in our trilogy of blogs on meeting PABIAC’s Human Factors Objectives – Getting Started with SCTA.
Meeting PABIAC’s Human Factors Objectives (Part 2): A Systematic Approach to HF risk management
Many facilities understand the why behind human factors but struggle with the how. Our latest blog breaks down the systematic approach that successful organisations use to integrate human factors into their operations.
Meeting PABIAC’s Human Factors Objectives (Part 1): An Introduction
PABIAC’s latest strategy marks a turning point for the sector—placing human factors at the heart of safety. But what does that really mean in practice?
