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

Ginette Collazo

Ginette Collazo, Ph. D. is an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist with 20 years of experience that specializes in Engineering Psychology and Human Reliability, disciplines that study the interaction between human behavior and productivity. She has held positions leading training and human reliability programs in the Pharmaceutical and...

November 04, 2024

Available all day

90 Mins

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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.