Human factors - Safety critical communication: Information sheet

Last updated: 12 August 2025

This information sheet will assist major hazard facility, petroleum and geothermal energy operations to: 

  • recognise the critical role of safety critical communication in preventing and mitigating major accident events
  • proactively identify performance shaping factors and incorporate them into safety critical communication procedures
  • implement procedures around receiving safety critical communications
  • improve safety critical communication during shift handover and emergency response.