Safety Leadership through Human Factors and Error Management

Regardless of industry type or sector, accident statistics appear to be dominated by the contribution of human error. Human error was a factor in every major publicised accident in recent memory, including the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. The pervasiveness of human error within a system is hardly surprising since humans are involved in the design, construction, maintenance, operation and management of complex socio-technical systems.

This Safety Leadership Training will teach you the skills to proactively identify risk safety behaviour, train key staff in error management techniques, cultivate a positive safety culture and implement error-tolerant systems throughout your company. From front-line manager to CEO, this course will give you an understanding of the important role of human factors and error management in demonstrating effective safety leadership.

By attending this practical and highly interactive Safety Leadership training course, delegates will be able to:

• Discuss and agree on the essential elements required for effective safety leadership
• Understand the concept of human factors, human error and error tolerance
• Identify the human factors contributing to accidents in large and complex socio-technical systems
• Understand the role that non technical skills plays in complementing technical skills and can be enhanced to mitigate against risk and errors
• Examine organisational and systemic influences that shape human performance
• Understand how practical, team based non technical skills training can assist organisations in achieving safe and efficient production goals
• Develop common error tolerant strategies to manage human error across a broad range of workplace domains
• Incorporate human factors management into an integrated safety management system

The Safety Leadership Training is designed for:

• Safety professionals who are looking to update their knowledge of safety leadership and human factors
• Supervisors and foremen
• HSE managers / Project Managers
• Executive, general, operational managers and department heads
• HSE investigators
• Change managers
• Learning and development/training personnel

This practical and results-oriented Safety Leadership Training Course is based on adult learning concept. It incorporates short inspiring lectures with structured lessons from the learning manual; PowerPoint slides with videos to enhance learning; case studies for review and discussion, ample time for questions and answers; training activities to reinforce key concepts within a concentrated but enjoyable learning environment.

Pre & Post course assessments will be used to measure the effectiveness of this training.