12/08/2026
Confirmed training!
People are often the last line of defence — but what happens when a safety-critical task is designed around assumptions about how people should work rather than how they actually work?
In high-hazard industries, human error can have serious consequences. Effective Human Factors & Safety-Critical Task Analysis helps organisations understand where human performance can be affected by task design, procedures, workload, interfaces, environment, communication and organisational factors — and, most importantly, how these risks can be reduced.
This practical masterclass provides participants with a structured approach to analysing safety-critical tasks, identifying human performance vulnerabilities and developing effective controls to improve operational reliability and safety.
Key areas covered include:
🔹 Human Factors principles and their role in major accident prevention
🔹 Identifying and analysing safety-critical tasks
🔹 Human error, error-producing conditions and performance influencing factors
🔹 Task analysis methodologies and techniques
🔹 Assessing workload, complexity and task demands
🔹 Procedure and work instruction design
🔹 Human-machine and control room interfaces
🔹 Identifying critical human actions and recovery mechanisms
🔹 Designing effective error-tolerant controls and safeguards
🔹 Learning from incidents, near misses and human performance events
🔹 Integrating Human Factors into HSE, operational risk and process safety management
🔹 Practical case studies and real-world safety-critical applications
This masterclass is particularly relevant for professionals working in Oil & Gas, Petrochemicals, LNG, Energy, Utilities, Offshore Operations, Manufacturing, Process Industries and other high-hazard environments.
Move beyond simply asking, “Why did the operator make an error?”
Learn how to identify the conditions that make errors more likely — and design tasks, systems and controls that support safe and reliable human performance.
Find out more! https://www.opuskinetic.com/training/human-factors-safety-critical-task-analysis-scta/2026-09-28/
