Workplace safety methods focus on controls implementation, while Human Operational Performance Theory (HOPT) focuses on risk reduction and safety improvement. Safety in industries such as energy, ...

Even with better technology and regulations, human behavior remains the leading cause of workplace incidents. Here’s what safety leaders need to understand—and fix—in 2026. As occupational safety ...

Human Reliability Analysis (HRA) is a critical field that quantitatively assesses the likelihood of human error in complex, high-stakes operations. These environments ...

Tesla’s latest crash statistics paint a counterintuitive picture: even as its Autopilot system faces high profile failures and federal scrutiny, the raw numbers still suggest that human drivers are ...

Human error, wrote James Reason, is both universal and inevitable. The principles are so important that the famed human factors specialist listed them at the top of ...

A new report from Splunk, "The Hidden Costs of Downtime," analyzes the impact of downtime on organizations and highlights the role simple human error often plays in ...

In the early morning of March 26, a 948-foot vessel struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Md., causing its collapse. Preliminary evidence shows that the container ship Dali lost power ...