Using human factors risk analysis to develop risk-informed competence standards

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Using human factors risk analysis to develop risk-informed competence standards

Traditional competence management in major hazard industries often relies too heavily on broad role-based training matrices, which can miss the task-specific knowledge and judgement operators need to control real site risks safely. This is why you should include Human Factors risk analyses to build competence standards that are directly tied to safety-critical tasks, major accident hazards, and the safeguards operators rely on in practice.

What you will learn

In this guide, we explain why competence management should be based on the reality of safety-critical work, not just on role profiles or generic training records. We show how Human Factors risk analysis can uncover the knowledge, behaviours and decisions that matter most in the control of major accident hazards, and how those insights can then be translated into more meaningful competence standards.

We also explore how competence management should not sit in isolation.

And using a practical case study, we demonstrate how this approach can help organisations identify hidden competence gaps, capture tacit operational knowledge and improve the way training and assessment are designed for high-risk tasks.

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