Monitoring lapses have been identified as contributory factors in many fatal accidents and serious incidents and it was established that the training and assessment of monitoring skills needed to be investigated. IEHF Registered Member Jo Davies from ESE Associates writes about the findings of the consultancy’s comprehensive study into the training and assessment of pilot [...]
Ergonomist speaks about user friendly medical device design
8 April 2013 by
IEHF Member Dr Jennifer Martin who is a senior research fellow in human factors at the University of Nottingham is speaking at the Med Tech Innovation Expo in Coventry on Wednesday about ‘Overcoming technology abandonment through user friendly design’. Jennifer will focus on how the last two decades have seen an increased appreciation of the [...]
BBC2 Horizon programme on human factors in healthcare
19 March 2013 by
On Thursday 21st March at 21.00, the BBC will be broadcasting an Horizon programme on human factors in healthcare, called ‘How to avoid mistakes in surgery’. It looks at how learning about the human in the system and the system itself can bring about enormous improvements in safety and outcomes that technology and medical science [...]
Human factors crucial to future success of high speed rail
18 March 2013 by
As the enabling legislation is prepared for Parliamentary approval of the HS2 high speed rail network, an IEHF-accredited ergonomics and design consultancy, CCD, has been appointed to provide human factors expertise. Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the world’s leading planning, engineering, and program and construction management organisations, has appointed CCD who are using their expertise to [...]
Human Interface Technologies Team highlights work
12 March 2013 by
Stories of Board level engagement sought
6 March 2013 by
The Clinical Human Factors Group (CHFG) is a charity working in the NHS to improve awareness and the application of human factors and ergonomics in healthcare. CHFG is creating a short resource for NHS Boards (i.e. chief executives, non-executive directors, chairmen, nursing directors, medical directors, finance and workforce directors), which aims to increase their awareness [...]
To ski or not to ski?
1 March 2013 by
It’s strange how we can invest so much time and effort pursuing something as ephemeral as the exhilaration of a ski run through the trees in perfect powder snow under a blue sky even though the reality all too often is icy pistes and poor visibility. Yet still we go back every year. The ergonomics [...]
Free leaflets available
27 February 2013 by
Ergonomic Systems trains Environment Agency
26 February 2013 by
Richard Simcock of Ergonomic Systems Limited recently ran two of his IEHF accredited one-day ‘Introduction to Human Factors’ courses for the Environment Agency. Twenty two regulators from the agency, representing a wide range of sectors attended. The interactive sessions were well received with all attendees getting involved and getting to grips with the basic principles [...]
CCD goes high speed with HS2
17 February 2013 by
Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the world’s leading planning, engineering, and program and construction management organisations, has appointed design and ergonomics consultancy CCD to provide human factors expertise to HS2 Ltd. CCD is using its expertise to provide a rationale for the design of elements of the HS2 high speed rail network as the enabling legislation [...]
