Are you looking to improve safety performance and, more specifically, understand why workers are doing what they are doing?
Human Factors may be a better tool than Behavior-Based Safety Observation Process, and there is a FREE tool we can use to perform our Initial HF assessment.
As most of you know, I am a big James Reason fan and have been using his Mistakes/Errors/Violations model since the early 1990’s. This SafeFlix tool is a bit different; it looks at 12 elements of an organization (many of these 12 are the elements of a functioning SMS) and assesses where the organization is at in each of the 12 and where there are opportunities to IMPROVE HUMAN FACTORS (or in other words REDUCE Mistakes/Errors/Violations).
Here are their Videos and the link to watch. To use their tools, you have to register (FREE), and then, as I understand it, you get access to their HF Assessment tool.
▶️ Safety Culture Assessment- Practices and values towards managing risks and safety in an organization.
▶️ SHIELD – Learn from past incidents and accidents. Uncover the Human Factors iceberg.
▶️ HPCP (Human Performance Capability Profile) – A tool that helps you monitor the Human Performance (HP) capabilities in your organization.
▶️ Task Analysis – Learn how to gather data and run a task analysis to understand your users’ tasks in-depth.
▶️ Safety Eye – Safety Culture Assessment tool – App to assess the practices and values towards managing risk and safety in an organization.
▶️ Critical Incident Technique – Method to identify critical components of a job or task and to get insights into incidents.
▶️ Levels of Automation (LOAT) – Tool to identify the level of automation of a design and verify its suitability.
▶️ Technique for the Retrospective and Predictive Analysis of Cognitive Errors.
▶️ Human Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP) – What-if? approach, using experts to determine what could go wrong and how to prevent it.
▶️ Eye tracking analysis technique – Identifying what exactly someone was looking at, when, and for how long.
▶️ Neurophysiological Measures – Measuring physiological signals to assess Human Factors (e.g., mental workload, stress) – Putting the people pieces together to achieve effective and robust task performances
▶️ Tabular Task Analysis and Link Analysis – Analysing task components and uncovering connections to optimize the design process.
▶️ Establishing HF Requirements – How to ensure that human factors requirements are properly covered in your process.