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OS Safety Webinar Series

Understanding the ‘Why’: Human Factors in Safety Failures.
How cognitive overload, distractions, and decision fatigue shape incidents

Program Overview

Recent incidents including the tragic fire in Hong Kong, remind us that many safety failures are not driven by a single technical fault, but by a combination of human, organisational, and system-level factors.

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This webinar explores how human factors such as cognitive overload, distractions, and decision fatigue contribute to safety incidents, even in environments with procedures, training, and technology in place. Participants will gain insight into why competent people make critical errors under pressure, and how organisations can design safer systems that better account for real human behaviour.

Key Takeways

  • Understand how human factors influence incident causation, using real-world cases such as the Hong Kong fire

  • Learn how cognitive overload, distractions, and decision fatigue degrade performance and judgment

  • Recognise early warning signs of human-factor-related risk in operations and leadership

  • Apply practical approaches to reduce human error through better system, process, and organisational design

  • Shift from a blame-based mindset to a learning and prevention-focused safety culture

Why Attend?

  • Gain a deeper understanding of what really sits behind major safety failures

  • Learn lessons from recent incidents and how they translate into your own operational context

  • Strengthen your organisation’s ability to prevent incidents by addressing both human and system weaknesses

  • Improve the quality of incident reviews, audits, and safety interventions

Who Should Attend

  • Safety, Health & Environment (HSE) professionals

  • Risk, compliance, and resilience managers

  • Operations, engineering, and quality leaders

  • Incident investigators and internal auditors

  • Senior management responsible for safety performance

  • Anyone involved in designing, managing, or overseeing safety-critical operations

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Event Details

Date : 29 January 2026​

Time : 3pm - 4pm SGT​

Place : Online Zoom

Zoom link will be sent to registered attendees.​

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- Please complete your registration fully once the link is shared.
- Use your actual full name (as per your official documents) — no nicknames or shortcuts.
- Incomplete or incorrect registrations will not be accepted.

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