Health Safety and Environment · HSE-020
Safety Culture and Human Factors
Even with good procedures and equipment, incidents occur when human factors and culture are neglected. Fatigue, workload, communication failures and organisational…
- Duration5 days
- Next date16 - 20 Nov 2026
- Cities7 cities
- Fee from£2,840
Course overview
Why Attend
Even with good procedures and equipment, incidents occur when human factors and culture are neglected. Fatigue, workload, communication failures and organisational pressures influence how people actually work.
This LLMI course explores human performance, error types, situational awareness, fatigue, communication, procedures design, organisational culture and how to assess and improve safety culture. Participants learn practical tools to reduce error-likely situations and build a resilient safety culture.
The course draws on research and industry case studies.
Course Objectives
Explain human factors and their role in incidents
Distinguish types of human error and violations
Identify error-likely situations and reduce them
Understand fatigue, workload and situational awareness
Assess safety culture maturity
Implement practical culture improvement initiatives
Target Audience
HSE professionals
Managers and supervisors
Engineers designing work systems
Operations staff
HR professionals
Investigation team members
Course Methodology
Interactive presentations
Case studies
Culture assessment tools
Group workshops
Action planning
Course outline
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1Day 1: Human Factors Fundamentals
- What human factors are
- Human performance
- Lessons from major accidents
- Systems thinking
- Just culture
- Case study: Human factors accident
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2Day 2: Human Error
- Error types
- Violations
- Error-likely situations
- Error reduction techniques
- Procedure design
- Workshop: Error trap analysis
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3Day 3: Individual Factors
- Fatigue
- Stress and workload
- Situational awareness
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Exercise: Fatigue risk review
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4Day 4: Safety Culture
- Culture models
- Culture assessment
- Leadership influence
- Reporting culture
- Psychological safety
- Workshop: Culture survey analysis
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5Day 5: Improving Culture
- Improvement strategies
- Learning teams
- Engagement
- Measuring progress
- Sustaining change
- Capstone: Culture improvement plan
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