Human Error and Cognitive Load: How to Reduce Memory and Attention Failures

Human error is known to be the primary cause of quality and production losses in many industries. Although it is unlikely that human error will ever be eliminated, many human performance problems can be prevented. Human errors start at the design stage and usually, factors associated with cognitive load are ignored.  In science, cognition is the mental processing that includes the attention of working memory, comprehending, and producing language, calculating, reasoning, problem-solving, and decision making. This webinar evaluates cognitive issues that may be the cause of these failures.  

This webinar would provide tools that can be implemented and used after this session. These include practical tools. We will discuss human error categories, near root causes, and root causes for these events. We will discuss the latest trends in human error issues in the industry.

Webinar Objectives

• Know the definitions of cognitive load factors
• Learn the Human Factors (20% Individual Performance)
• Learn the questions and possible answers
• How to assess the areas
• How to collect the responses
• How to analyze the responses and determine the cognition levels
• How to report the level of risk for Human Errors
• Recommend solutions.

Webinar Highlights

• Human Error Categories
• Human limitations related to cognition
• Cognitive Load Categories that affect memory, attention and decision making
• How to prepare the floor assessment
• What to look for when doing the assessment
• How to present results
• How to present recommendations

Who Should Attend

• Training managers and coordinators
• Operations
• Manufacturing
• Plant engineering
• QA/QC staff
• Process excellence/improvement professionals
• Industrial/process engineers
• Compliance officers
• Regulatory/legislative affairs professionals
• General/corporate counsel