Health and Safety Executive

Managing human performance

Human factors are environmental, organisational and job factors as well as human and individual characteristics which influence behaviour at work and can affect health and safety. Human factors has been “operationalised” as a list of key topics. Each of the topics gives you access to briefing sheets, extracts from an inspectors toolkit and other useful resources.

These topics are particularly relevant to major hazard industries, eg. chemical processing, refineries, offshore, nuclear and rail. Many of these topics and the guidance provided will also be relevant to non-major hazard industries, such as manufacturing and healthcare.

Read more about human factors in major hazard industries


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