Hu-Tech are experts in addressing the Human Factors requirements of Control of Major Accident Hazards 2015 (COMAH).  Our experience ranges from providing long term support as Subject Matter Experts (SME) for top-tier, supplier-managed projects, to providing ad-hoc support to businesses when writing safety cases or responding to Competent Authority (CA) notices. 
We facilitate close and supportive relationships between companies and their CA assessors for Process Safety and Human Factors, responding to inspector's questions and guiding companies through their compliance journey.

Our Services
  • Critical Task Screening 
  • Critical Procedure Review and Development
  • Site audits for managing:
    1. Human Performance
    2. Human Factors in Process Design
    3. Competence Management Systems
    4. COMAH Critical Communications
    5. Organisational Factor 
  • Human Reliability Assessment (HRA)
  • Identifying and designing for Performance Influencing Factors (PIFs)
  • Editing and Updating site Safety Case sections incorporating HF to demonstrate compliance

Establishments that Hu-Tech have provided COMAH support to include:
  • Onshore and Offshore Oil & Gas facilities
    • Drilling rigs
    • Tie-back and Processing facilities
    • FPSOs
  • Gas offloading and storage Terminals
  • Oil Refineries
  • Chemical processing and Production facilities
  • Pharmaceutical Production facility
  • Cosmetics production and distribution centre
  • Fireworks Storage and Distribution Centre
  • Fragrance and flavouring factory
  • Paint factory

Further Reading
  • Nick Taylor's paper at the IHF conference 2026 on SCTA, including a COMAH Case Study:
              Two-Case-Studies-Demonstrating-the-‘Psychological-Imperative' for SCTA.
              https://www.hse.gov.uk/comah/ca-guides.htm​
  • Human Factors and Ergonomics: http://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/