Human Factors Review of a Safety-Critical System in a Pandemic

“Safety-Critical Systems (SCSs) can be defined as systems whose failure could result in loss of life, significant property damage or damage to the environment” (p.2) (1). Examples of such systems are essential critical infrastructures like Healthcare, Public Safety and National Security, Education, Financial services, Transport Logistics and Communication. Utilities, Information Technology, essential food production supply chain and sales (2), in fact all of the keyworker systems which have been awarded government protection to maintain services in the current UK Lockdown during the Covid 19 Coronavirus Pandemic(3, 4).