Ergonomists at the Institute of Naval Medicine have produced a Guide to Understanding Human Factors and Human Behaviour in Safety Management and Accident Investigation. The guide has been prepared as part of the Navy Safety Improvement programme by Bob Bridger, Peter Pisula and Anthea Bennett. Its purpose is to help accident investigators ask the right [...]

The Institute has become a Partner in the PE-ABLE Project.  This is a Lifelong Learning Project (LLP) funded by the EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme. The main objective of the project is to develop an on-line training tool to facilitate ergonomics learning. The focus is on the application of ergonomics through participatory approaches to improve working [...]

Nominations for the fourth IEHF Ergonomics Design Award closed at the end of November last year, after attracting entries from a broad range of business and non-commercial sectors. Reflecting the importance of the award, the judging panel, who will now decide on the winner, includes senior representatives from the Design Council, Royal Society of Arts, [...]