Human Performance (HU) Facilitator

“Jeff Hren revisits topical issues with a focus to finding the underlying human performance issues. He presents the material in an engaging manner inviting his audience into the investigation and thereby helping them to internalize the lessons learned.”

                                                 Bret Nelson, GE Hitachi Hardware Engineering Manager

 

“Thought Provoking”

                                   Maria Pfeffer, Senior Project Manager, Global Nuclear Fuels


“Jeff’s in-depth analysis and personation method is the highlight of his presentations. A real world example of engineering decisions and how they impact critical operations is spot-on for both new engineers and our legacy team members. He provides tremendous safety topics for our industries.”

                                             Chuck Slabaugh, Senior Product Manager, Reuter Stokes

JEFF HREN
TOPICS - • Corporate Responsibility • Decision Making
• Failure • Military • Organizational  Management
• Performance • Project Management
• Safety • Technology

JEFF HREN - PROGRAMS

  • Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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  • Onagawa Response to the Great Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
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  • Upper Big Branch Mine Explosion
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  • Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
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  • Space Shuttle Columbia
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  • Boeing 737 8 Max
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  • Chernobyl Nuclear Accident
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  • Volkswagen Emissions Scandal
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  • US Airways Flight 1549 - Sully
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  • Navy Accidents in the South China Sea
  • Fukushima Daichi Meltdown following Great Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

JEFF HREN - BIOGRAPHY

Jeff Hren has spent most of his career developing technical leaders in the operation of nuclear reactors on Submarines and Aircraft Carriers at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. Jeff now works for GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy as a Project Manager. He has worked in responding to urgent customer requests in a technical projects’ role and as an Instrument and Controls Project Manager focusing mainly on electronics deliveries to Nuclear Power Plants in Japan. In addition to these core assignments, Jeff enjoys a “job on the side” by creating and delivering presentations focusing on Engineering Accidents that seek to heighten our awareness of Human Performance (HU). 

Jeff’s initial desire to create and perform these seminars were birthed in his study and review of the space shuttle Challenger Accident. From there as his excitement and curiosity soared, he was inspired to research other engineering accidents and heighten his own personal awareness. “Big mistakes seem to happen so innocently and generally by the best people.” Said Jeff, “Incompetent people make small mistakes, the big mistakes come from your best performers.”

Jeff now looks to introduce these HU errors to others via various presentations he has created from intense research over the past 10 years. Jeff looks to create an uneasiness in his audiences (a constructive dissatisfaction) as engineers and technicians (and leaders/executives) are in danger of becoming comfortable with the unforgiving technologies that we work with in a competitive commercial environment. Be warned, the Laws of Physics will not be violated.

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