Course description
Human Factors for Safety (HUFS)
This course introduces you to concepts and techniques that can be used to support the design and evaluation of complex interactive systems, with a particular emphasis on safety critical systems. These techniques include work analysis (including task analysis and scenario analysis), human error assessment, design and evaluation of interactive systems and human reliability assessment.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is suitable for:
- Practitioners across all domains including aerospace, military, railway, automotive, civil nuclear, civil maritime, medical devices and healthcare;
- Developers of equipment safety cases during design for software, hardware, procedures, systems and/or platforms;
- Developers of safety cases for operational safety and disposal;
- Reviewers of safety cases within an organisation or as an independent activity;
- Developers and reviewers of changes to existing safety-critical / safety-related equipment and operations;
- Project managers where development of a safety case is a significant element of projects they manage;
- Regulators of safety critical domains.
Prerequisites
A basic understanding of system safety terminology and lifecycle via prior learning or industrial experience. It is useful for you to have taken our Foundations of System Safety Engineering course.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
By the end of this course you will have an understanding of:
- Usability its relation to error;
- User requirements elicitation and analysis;
- Work representation – hierarchical task analysis;
- Principles of design and prototyping;
- Evaluation of interactive systems;
- Errors and principles relating to human reliability;
- Human reliability analysis;
- Human error analysis.
Course delivery details
During the teaching week there will be a combination of lecture materials and case studies to explore. The case studies give you the chance to work through an example to reinforce your learning from the lectures.