Best Defence Against Errors and Error Precursors 🔗

Introduction

To err is human. Workers are fallible. Errors are inevitable (as well as predictable). These are some fundamentals of the human performance approach to understanding safety. Generally speaking, human performance encompasses the way workers, the organisation, the environment and the management system work synergistically as an entire system. Workers are the focal points of this system, since any flaws in the system can affect workers’ performance and, conversely, any worker flaws can change the system. Errors are viewed mainly as consequences of working in a flawed system. To prevent human error from affecting operations, management can keep workers from making dynamic errors (error avoidance) or stop the mistakes from changing (controls). Human performance tools have been designed to help workers anticipate, prevent and catch dynamic errors. The application of the tools and system is incorporated with the Behavioural-Based Safety. Many tools are geared toward identifying the presence of error precursors. In this module, the participants would learn the 10 human performance tools that have been determined. These tools are practical because they provide error-avoiding defences and promote active worker engagement. This workshop helps the participants to apply the human performance tools into behavioural based safety.