ERA provides a Human Factors service to the Defence & Aerospace, Rail, ITS / Surface Transport and On/Offshore Process industries. Our Human Factors personnel also have experience of work in the Built Environment.

Human Factors Integration
ERA's Human Factors consultancy experience is firmly based in engineering projects, utilizing a range of standard safety engineering techniques and those specific to Human Engineering. We take an integrated and pragmatic approach to risk reduction, from feasibility and requirements specification, through data acquisition, to full safety case production, representation, and critical appraisal and beyond.

Human Error Identification & Analysis is Not Enough
All too frequently, the consideration of Human Factors in Safety Engineering is limited to the provision and analysis of human reliability data obtained from textbook databases such as HEART or THERP. This approach alone however is no longer sufficient to satisfy the requirements of the HSE, the MoD, the CAA, and other regulatory or contract awarding bodies.

Corporate Manslaughter
Lack of provision of appropriate evidence can result in an indefensible safety case, leading to rejection by the regulatory/contract authority or worse, to a charge of corporate manslaughter. At ERA we have a more sophisticated, professional and defensible view of the requirements for safety management and reduction of project-related risks. In the development of safety cases, we use appropriate and robust methods, using a representative sample of system users, in applicable test scenarios, to obtain valid and reliable data.

Our professionals are formally trained and qualified in Human Factors, and have sufficient experience to offer not only the standard range of Human Factors services, but also those of Independent Safety Assessment and Expert Witness.

Services include:
	Human Factors Programme Planning
	Hazard Identification & Hazard Risk Analyses (also HaZop)
	OSHA
	Safety Case Presentation
	Alerts design, handling and management
	Control interface design
	Control room layout
	Environmental Ergonomics
	Human Error I.D. and Analyses
	Task Design
	Procedures Design
	Situational Awareness
	Workload (inc. Cognitive Workload