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What Human Factors Isn’t: 3. Off-The-Shelf Behaviour Modification Training

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 23/09/201913/03/2023

‘Human Factors’ (or Ergonomics) is often presented as something that it’s not, or as something…

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What Human Factors Isn’t: 2. Courtesy and Civility at Work

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 18/09/201913/03/2023

‘Human Factors’ (or Ergonomics) is often presented as something that it’s not, or as something…

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What Human Factors Isn’t: 1. Common Sense

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 10/07/201913/03/2023

‘Human Factors’ (or Ergonomics) is often presented as something that it’s not, or as something…

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The Organisational Homelessness of ‘Human Factors’

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 04/07/201916/03/2023

In this post, I outline four common homes for HF/E within organisations, drawing on personal experience in each of the four organisational divisions in different organisations. I conclude with some of the implications of organisational homelessness.

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‘Human Factors’ and ‘Human Performance’: What’s the Difference?

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 24/04/201916/03/2023

The term ‘Human Performance’ (and ‘Human and Organisational Performance’ (or HOP) has become increasingly common…

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HindSight 28 on Change is out now!

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 21/02/2019

HindSight Issue 28 is now available in print and online at SKYbrary and on the EUROCONTROL website. You can download the full issue, and individual articles. HindSight magazine is free and published twice a year, reaching tens of thousands of readers in aviation and other sectors worldwide.

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The Commercialisation and Commodification of Competency

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 28/10/201816/03/2023

Two or three years ago, I undertook a course involving UX ‘certification’. I had already…

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Giving Guidance to Government

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 27/10/201817/03/2023

This article was published in The Ergonomist, published by the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and…

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The Problem with Professional Appropriation: The Case of ‘Human Factors’ and ‘Ergonomics’

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 08/10/201816/03/2023

In a recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper by journalist Liam Mannix (A…

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Work and How to Survive It: Lesson 2. Understand Variation Inside Your Organisation

  • by stevenshorrock
  • Posted on 01/10/201828/02/2023

In this sporadic series of posts, I share a few insights, as they might apply to work and organisations, from ‘Life and How To Survive It’ and ‘Families and How to Survive Them’, by psychotherapist (late) Robin Skynner and comedian John Cleese.

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Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) | Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Specialist (CErgHF) | BSc (Hons) MSc (Eng) PhD

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