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Human Reliability Associates
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Human Factors Consultancy. Est. 1982.
Specialists in Human Factors Risk Management, SHERPA, HFCTR, SCTA across sectors, e.g. Process Safety (COMAH), Pharma, Healthcare, Defence, Medical Device Design, and Transport.
Inspired by Netflix's "The Railway Men", about the Bhopal disaster, this blog uses the Accident Sequence and Precursor (ASAP) model to show how post-incident actions can feed into organisational learning and recovery.

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#humanfactors #Bhopal #learningfromincidents
December 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Reliability prevents failure.
Resilience helps us recover from it.
SCTA can strengthen both.

If you’re thinking about organisational learning or how SCTA fits beyond COMAH, this might be a helpful read.

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#humanfactors #SCTA #resilienceengineering #reliabilityengineering
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is the final instalment in our trilogy of blogs on meeting the paper and board industry's 2025 Human Factors Objectives – Getting Started with SCTA.

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#PABIAC #HumanFactors #PaperIndustry #ProcessSafety #SCTA #SafetyManagement
October 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
We're excited to announce a free public webinar launching HRA's SCTA Health Check - a simple tool that scores your site's SCTA capabilities in just 30 minutes.

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#ProcessSafety #HumanFactors #SCTA #SafetyManagement #COMAH
October 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
🎯 Meeting PABIAC's Human Factors Objectives (Part 3) - Getting Started with SCTA

📖 Read here: buff.ly/saauVMl

💡 Our PABIAC Human Factors guide synthesizes approaches from multiple industries - available for download.

#PABIAC #HumanFactors #PaperIndustry #ProcessSafety #SCTA #SafetyManagement
August 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
July 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
A fascinating case study explores how "Shared Mental Models" - a concept proven in aviation and military operations - can transform surgical team performance.

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#HealthcareSafety #TeamPerformance #PatientSafety #SurgicalTeams #SharedMentalModels
July 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Using the 2005 Stockwell shooting as a case study, this blog demonstrates how major incidents rarely result from single failures, but rather from the alignment of multiple systemic weaknesses across five stages.

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#SafetyCulture #IncidentInvestigation #HumanFactors #SystemicAnalysis
July 8, 2025 at 8:07 AM