Human Factors

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    Why safety professionals must step up to ensure the fair roll-out of new tech

    Technology like AI has great potential to improve workplace safety, but it could also negatively affect wellbeing through excessive monitoring of work performance or personal health parameters, reaching inaccurate conclusions without sufficient human oversight and analysis. Safety professionals are, however, uniquely placed to ensure new tech is used ethically, fairly and in ways that genuinely support employee safety and health.

    By Dr Julie Riggs, British Safety Council on 21 July 2026

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    Human-led/AI-accelerated: how to build the trust that makes safety tech work

    Technologies such as AI have the potential to transform how organisations record and analyse EHS risk. However, successful adoption depends on more than technology alone. Jose Arcilla, CEO of HSI, explains why organisations that engage with their frontline staff and utilise their knowledge to design and implement new solutions, will benefit the most.

    By Jose Arcilla, HSI on 18 June 2026

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    HSE urges offshore oil and gas firms to focus more on safety risks from human error

    Offshore oil and gas companies are being urged to focus more closely on the potential for human error to cause major accidents, after an inspection of a platform operated by Apache in the North Sea found failings in plans to prevent fires and explosions.

    By Kerry Reals on 23 July 2024

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    Grab their attention

    Health and safety practitioners need to adapt their communication methods to suit the audience, otherwise important messages risk getting lost.

    By Phil Pinnington on 23 May 2022

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    Introduction to Human Factors in Accident Investigation By Dr Robert Bridger

    Book review by Phil Pinnington CMIOSH, Audit and consultancy manager at the British Safety Council

    By on 15 March 2022

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    The soft machine

    Fallibility is part of the human condition, and it’s a beautiful thing. But designing this into safe systems of work is an ongoing challenge for safety professionals and human factors specialists alike.

    By Nigel Heaton on 01 May 2019

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