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Human and organisational factors
Human and organisational factors is about understanding what people do as part of a system to help manage risk and keep us safe. It is about managing how people interact with plant, equipment, processes and each other. All major hazard industries rely on high levels of human performance to improve safety and reliability.
The EI is a major provider of guidance and training. As well as the publications below, also see the following webpages:
- Research report: Human factors guidance and checklists to improve procurement of goods and equipment
- Guidance for optimising operator plant situational awareness by rationalising control room alarms
- Guidance on human and organisational factors aspects of implementing new technologies
- Human factors briefing note no. 2 – Alarm handling
- Human factors briefing note no. 8 – Ergonomics
- Human factors briefing note no. 16 – Human factors integration
- Report 454: Human factors engineering in projects
- Human factors standards for facility design: Early design quick reference guide
- Human factors briefing note no. 15 – Incident and accident analysis
- Learning from incidents, accidents and events
- Russian translation - TRIPOD BETA: Guidance on using Tripod Beta in the investigation and analysis of incidents, accidents and business losses
- Investigation insights: A toolkit for leaders and investigators
- Investigation insights - Tool 1: A leader's role
- Investigation insights - Tool 2: An investigator's role
- Investigation insights - Tool 3: Better insights workshop
- Investigation insights - Tool 4: Better learning outcomes
- Tripod lite: A ‘lite’ tool for investigating simple incidents, events and near misses
- TRIPOD BETA: Guidance on using Tripod Beta in the investigation and analysis of incidents, accidents and business losses
- Guidance on effective workforce involvement in health and safety
- Human factors briefing note no. 9 – Safety culture
- Human factors briefing note no. 18 – Leadership
- WFI 'campaign note': Guidance on running a WFI campaign and using the WFI poster pack
- Workforce involvement (WFI) poster pack
- Workforce involvement poster 1: What is workforce involvement?
- Workforce involvement poster 2: What does the future look like with WFI?
- Workforce involvement poster 3: What stops you from communicating safety issues?
- Workforce involvement poster 4: What if you are the only person in your team who sees the risk?
- Workforce involvement poster 5: When was the last time you raised a safety matter?
- Workforce involvement poster 6: Your involvement…
- Workforce involvement poster 7: What ideas do you have to improve safety?
- Workforce involvement poster 8: Share your safety ideas
- Supporting safety decision making in companies: Briefing notes for Board members, managers and other leaders
- Bow ties in risk management: A concept book for process safety
- Guidance on quantified human reliability analysis (QHRA)
- Guidance on human factors safety critical task analysis
- Human factors briefing note no. 4 – Maintenance
- Human factors briefing note no. 11 – Task analysis
- Human factors briefing note no. 12 – Human error and non-compliance
- Human factors briefing note no. 13 – Human reliability analysis
- Human factors briefing note no. 14 – Behavioural safety
- Human factors briefing note no. 20 – Occupational safety vs. process safety
- Task Improvement Process e-learn course
- Human factors briefing note no. 22 – Willingness to act
- Human failure types
- Research report: Question-set to understand and evaluate socio-technical resilience (QUESTOR)
- Research report: Using causal loop diagrams to explore behavioural and socio-technical safety challenges
- Integration of human and organisational factors into the safety management system
- Human factors briefing note no. 23 – Workload and staffing levels
- Minimal staffing and lone working: ensuring employee safety and wellbeing in the power sector
- Safe staffing arrangements - user guide for CRR348/2001 methodology: Practical application of Entec/HSE process operations staffing assessment methodology and its extension to automated plant and/or equipment
- Guidance on ensuring safe staffing levels
- Approaches to managing and assuring contractor competence
- Capability maturity model for maintenance management
- Guidance on Crew Resource Management (CRM) and non-technical skills training programmes
- Human factors briefing note no. 7 – Training and competence
- Human factors briefing note no. 21 – Supervision
- Guidance on ensuring control room operator (CRO) competence
Titles
- Guidance on the human aspects of cyber security
- Report of workshop on human factors in the petroleum industry
- Human and organisational factors professional development: Complete training resource
- Human factors briefing note no.1 - Introduction
- Research report: Achieving greater resilience to major events – Organisational learning for safety risk management in complex environments