IEHF Fellow Sylvia Horner from Quintec was awarded the second ‘H’ Rowbotham Memorial Prize at the UKCeB’s Good Practice Market Place at the Defence Information Symposium, Shrivenham, on 19th April 2013. The Prize recognises outstanding contribution to the practice of Human Factors Integration, which is an approach to managing engineering practices so that products are [...]
ESE aviation safety critical article
9 April 2013 by
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 [...]
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 [...]
