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Human Factors thinking, delivered monthly.

Build Human Factors capability alongside safety- and quality-critical professionals through practical insights, case studies, and resources you can actually use.

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  • The HRA Handbook – full guide to human error and reliability (immediate PDF download)
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What you will get access to...

Fresh thinking on Human Factors

  • How SCTA builds reliability and resilience in whole systems
  • Where AI agents fit (and don’t fit) in safety-critical work
  • The power of storytelling in task analysis
  • Practical guidance: from procedures design to implementation pitfalls 

Resources you can download and use

  • Templates, checklists, health-check tools
  • Case studies from pharma, oil & gas, chemicals, nuclear, manufacturing
  • Webinar recordings and course previews 

What's happening in the field

  • New courses and training dates
  • SHERPA software updates
  • Community discussions and emerging topics 

Recent newsletter topics

  • “The ONE Thing That Will Actually Improve Your Human Factors Program”
  • “The 7 Deadly Sins of SCTA Implementation”
  • “Festive Failures: A Humorous Look at Holiday Human Error”
  • “AI Agents and Human Performance: A SHERPA Approach”  

Why professionals subscribe to our Human newsletter

Dr. David Embrey

Managing Director

“Human Factors isn’t something you master in a two-day course. It’s pattern recognition built over time – seeing how a procedure design issue in pharma connects to a maintenance error in oil & gas, recognising cognitive biases before they become incidents.”

“Our newsletter helps you develop that recognition. Subscribers won’t implement every tool we share, but over 6-12 months, they’ve changed how they think about human performance issues and applied tools in practice.” 

– We’ve had good feedback from one subscriber applying the SCTA Health Check tool at a fuel terminal.
– Another subscriber from an LNG plant asking when the next SCTA Bootcamp will be held.
– Someone else got in touch saying that our blog on ‘checking’ came at just the right time to provide insight and clarity on discussions they were having within their hospital.

“We hope you find the future editions you receive as insightful.”

Building capabilities over time

Human Factors risk management is too broad and too nuanced to learn from a single training course or conference.

You need sustained exposure to:

  • Real cases across different industries and contexts
  • Proven tools and when to apply them
  • Emerging challenges (like AI in quality- and safety-critical systems)
  • How other organisations are embedding HF thinking

That's what this newsletter provides.

Some months you’ll read every word. Other months you’ll skim for what’s relevant. Either way, you’re building the mental models that help you: 

  • Spot human factors risks others miss
  • Ask better questions in incident investigations
  • Design more effective controls
  • Know what “good” looks like when you need training, software, or consultancy support

This connects to everything we do, but you don't need to buy anything to benefit:

  • Considering our SCTA or HF training? You’ll see what we actually teach and whether it fits your needs
  • Using or evaluating SHERPA software? You’ll understand how it works in practice
  • Need consultancy support? You’ll know the questions to ask

But most subscribers just read the newsletter, download the resources, and build their capability independently. That’s exactly what it’s designed for.

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