A legendary rivalry: one mountain and two climbers seeking to be the best. We join…
Category: Human Factors/Ergonomics
A few weeks ago, I had a chat with Jamey Hampton, Jessica Kerr, John K. Sawers of Greater…
Ergonomics (or human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among…
In this post, I outline a typical process of 10 Steps by which problematic solutions come into being. Some of the steps may be skipped, but with the same outcome: a problematic solution.
You’d expect that Human Factors/Ergonomics would be very relevant to the NHS. But is it actually integrated?
On 26 April 2018, I presented at the ‘Philosophical Breakfast Club’ (@philosophicalBC) conference on High Performing Teams (#PBCHPT2018). It was a remarkable conference bringing together healthcare professionals, psychologists, sports scientists, athletes, managers, human factors/ergonomics specialists, military officers and specialists, and others, My first conversation while having tea before the conference was with a spinal surgeon and bomb disposal expert. Throughout the conference I had many other fascinating conversations with people from a diverse range of backgrounds.
This leads me to the focus of my talk: collaboration at the interfaces, and what happens between teams, groups, professions, layers of management, organisations… In this post, I summarise the talk, slide by slide, with tweet-sized explanations.
During the second world war, the United States lost hundreds of planes in accidents that…
This is the fourth in a series of posts on different ‘kinds’ of human factors, as understood both within and outside the discipline and profession of human factors and ergonomics itself. This post explores a fourth kind of human factors: Socio-technical system interaction.
This third post explores another perspective on ‘human factors’: Factors Affecting Humans.
This second post in a series on Four Kinds of ‘Human Factors’ explores another kind of human factors: Factors of Humans.
Humanistic Systems 