HFC has been preparing various educational materials to ensure safety climate and culture, such as human related incidents analyses and lessons learned from experiences, by taking proactive actions to prevent recurrence and other proactive measures.

For Sharing Lessons Learned from Past Events

• Caution Report
• Illustrated Human Factors Lessons Learned (General industries)
• Illustrated Human Factors Lessons Learned (Nuclear industries)
• Five Points for Preventing Occupational Accidents
• Checkpoints for Preventing Recurrence of Errors in Maintenance
• Operator Training Q&A
• Human Factors Lessons Learned from the Medical Care, Railway, and Nuclear Industries

For Promoting Safety Consciousness

• Practices in Safe Organization
• What Managers Should do to Promote Safety
• Promoting Effective Rest

For Understanding Human Factors

Recognizing the importance of the human factors using videos and slides and providing teaching materials for such promotion.

• Materials for Human Factors Training to Pervade Human Factors Culture (CD-ROM and DVD)

Contributing to the solving of issues related to safety cultures.

• Basic research related to a common understanding for the practice of nuclear safety culture
  FY2005, sponsored by Nuclear Safety Commission, Cabinet Office

Various kinds of human factors lectures and seminars are prepared according to the participants and level of understanding. These seminars include fundamental, intermediate and advanced types.

Recent Activities

• Human factors seminars
• Human factors instructor training seminars (Only for electric power companies)

We dispatch lecturers to in-house safety seminars and offer curriculum to train in-house specialists and experts in human factors. The scope covered is general safety, safety culture, and total human factors engineering for a wide varieties of industries.

Recent Activities

• Human factors trainings for electric power companies
• Lectures on human factors for nuclear power developing countries ( Japan Electric Power Information Center, Inc.).
• Lectures and training of human factors trouble analysis
• Lectures on safety culture

HFC carries out intensive efforts to transfer techniques obtained from our various fields of researches to the electric and other industries, in order to prevent human errors in the field.

Recent Activities

• Safety assessment of sites and plants from organizational aspects
  FY2008 (6cases, electric power industry and chemical industry)
• Technical support of human factors trouble analysis by using "HINT/J-HPES"
  FY2008 (8cases, electric power industry)

Services to provide database, analysis tools, and softwares developed by HFC.

• HINT-HFC (A software of HINT/J-HPES, a technique to analysis human factor troubles)
• Summaries of human factors studies