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Safety Critical and High Consequence Work

Human Factors and Data Management The reasons behind why people do certain things often lie in their motives, intentions and perceptions and these are only accessible via the person’s ‘natural’ language – HFAL specialise in:

  • Getting the most out of text,
  • Reliable categorisation of text, and
  • Generating numerical data from what people say

    Things happen in companies because of the integration of individual, team, technical and organisational factors with the causes often hidden within the complex interaction between these elements. Companies collect data on all sorts of things, sometimes an individual problem may be fixed, but often no thought is given to underlying factors or structures. There is a need for systems, taxonomies, root-cause coding methods, and forms of analysis which can integrate the potentially valuable information from what people say into a numeric form with high levels of consistency, so they become compatible with numeric data obtained from operational and technical sources.

    HFAL have extensive experience working with qualitative data and developing reliable taxonomies that allow the classification of human factors, to produce trending, patterns and possible prediction of future problems. HFAL’s analysis starts from the actual words that people say, from qualitative data we can derive meaningful, reliable and validated numbers that can be integrated into whatever system your company may have. This provides new potential for analysis unavailable with more traditional techniques. Our proven systems allow for robust, replicable output where the watchword is reliability.

    Range of Products and Services
  • Database design
  • Taxonomy development
  • Statistical modelling
  • Data analysis
  • Root-cause coding and analysis
  • Reliability trials
  • Incident and near miss reporting
  • Psychometric tools

    (For example click here “Case Studies”)


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    Safety Critical and High Consequence Work
    Incident Reporting
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    Key Tools
    Functional Discourse Analysis (FDA)
    Incident Reporting Tools
    Critical Thinking Race Test

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