The focus on human performance has quickly become no more than human error of yesteryear. I’m amazed at how many “neuroscience solutions” there suddenly are that can fix human (safety) performance. Yet the focus remains on human frailties and failures and human performance still has the worker as the deer in the head light -- the imperative of mitigating human errors.
My position is the human link is the most complete link in the safety chain, with skills and capabilities that exceed any other. Human response in a risk environment is highly complex, iterative and variable - exactly what risk dynamics require. So I am not quite in the camp of human performance as it’s commonly defined.