Posts Tagged ‘safety case’
Incorporating Human Factors Engineering into Risk Management
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes In order to integrate human factors into an effective framework for managing risk in hazardous industries, companies need to address several key questions: How do we build a sustainable operating culture to deliver consistent behaviours within our employees, suppliers and contractors? What is required to demonstrate how human…
Read MoreIntegrating Human Factors into Safety Case
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes The 2019 National WSH Statistics report revealed that the Construction and Manufacturing industries were the top sources to fatal and major industries with 66 cases each. In the first half of 2019, there were 17 workplace fatalities and the top 3 causes were slips, trips & falls, machinery incidents…
Read MoreLatest Developments in Safety Case Regime Singapore
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes In 2017, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) first announced the Workplace Safety and Health (Major Hazard Installations) Regulations. This requires all MHIs to develop and submit their respective Safety Case, in accordance to the regulations. MHIs are required to prepare Safety Case reports and present all risk reduction measures in place…
Read MoreKey Principles in Integrating Human Factors in Risk Assessment
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Human factors play a huge role in Major Hazard Installations (MHIs) and when dealing with health and safety, human factors help optimise human performance and reduce human errors. MHIs ought to take the initiative to manage human errors, through the risk assessment process. The challenge is to develop error…
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