Human Factors training and consultancy
Why Human Factors?
Human Factors is an essential part of assuring the performance of safety critical activities.
Predicting and designing out human failures.
Understanding the support people need to perform tasks successfully.
Designing systems and work environments that meet user and task needs.
Managing workloads, stress and fatigue.
Ensuring competence.
Well designed jobs.
Useful and usable procedures.
Having reliable communications, effective teamwork and leadership.
Promoting an effective safety culture.
Not blaming individuals but instead learning lessons from events to improve future performance.
Human Factors applies psychology, engineering, and physiology to provide advanced understanding of human capabilities and behaviour. It uses a combination of methods, data and principles to optimise human performance and well being.
Human Factors is recognised by organisations that work in safety critical sectors, such as energy, transport, chemicals, emergency services, defence and healthcare to be an essential part of safety assessment, engineering and management. Also regulators expect Human Factors to be integrated into the management of safety critical activities and for organisations to have access to qualified Human Factors expertise.
Human Factors is a recognised profession and is governed by the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors in the United Kingdom.
Services
Introduction to Human Factors
Safety Critical Task Analysis
Fatigue risk management
Human Factors of procedures
Human Factors design
Human Factors of incident investigation
Working across many sectors including:
Oil and gas Chemicals Rail Shipping Defence Nuclear Manufacturing Renewable energy Emergency Services
Safety Critical Task Analysis
Human Factors of incident Investigation
Fatigue risk management
Human Factors of design
Human Factors of procedures
Human Factors of competence
Human Factors policies and management procedures
About Wright Human Factors
Wright Human Factors Ltd is Directed by Michael Wright (C.ErgHF, C.Psychol, AFBPSsS, CMIOSH).
Michael is a Chartered Human Factors Specialist and Chartered Psychologist, with over 35 years international experience across oil and gas, chemicals, nuclear, rail, shipping, emergency response and renewables, and other sectors.
He has developed best practice guidance on many topics, including organisational change, risk communication, competence management, Human Factors and safety culture assessment, on behalf of the Energy Institute, Centre for Chemical Process Safety and the UK Health and Safety Executive.
He delivers the:
Human Factors Foundation course on behalf of the Energy Institute,
Cogent Skill's one and two day Human Factors courses.
He is a mentor and assessor for the Energy Institute’s Human Performance for Energy Learning Pathway.
He also delivers Human Factors in-house training and consultancy.
Publications
Some publications authored or contributed to by Michael Wright
Competence
Safety Critical Task Analysis
Safe staffing levels
Human Factors Handbook
Managing organisational change
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