Personal Factors in Safety

 Recognize how experience can have positive and negative effects on safety;

 Recall factors that affect our judgment;

 Identify the effects of stress and fatigue;

 Recall ways to counter the effects of stress and fatigue;Identify communication strategies to improve safety

How do we make safe decisions? Knowledge alone is not enough. Personal factors that affect safety include experience, judgment, stress, fatigue and communication, and each of these influence the actions we decide to take. Take this course to learn about how you can improve personal factors in safety. Ideal learners include all employees.



OSHA Act Section 5(a)(1): General Duty Clause;

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration: Human Factors in Aviation Maintenance;

Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority: Human Factors