Using the Safety Culture Discussion Cards: Tips From a User

I have received some great practical tips (and considerations for the future) from an ATC…

Reading on the Job: Fatigue, Boredom and Distraction While Underloaded

I have received a few queries asking for a view (or “the science”) on reading…

Breaks From Operational Duty and Fatigue Management

by Steve Shorrock (Adapted from HindSight, Volume 13, Summer 2011, pp. 68-69, EUROCONTROL) Guidelines from Human Factors…

Safety Culture in Your Hands

(This article featured in The Controller – Journal of Air Traffic Control, April 2012.) by…

Is Ergonomics a Scientific Discipline? No.

This is taken from the article “Head to head: Is Ergonomics a Scientific Discipline?”, published…

Human Factors Research and Practice – Part 2: Bridging the Gap

This article by Steve Shorrock and Amy Chung was published in The Ergonomist (newsletter of…

Human Factors Research and Practice – Part 1: Surveying the Gap

This article by Steve Shorrock and Amy Chung was published in The Ergonomist (newsletter of…

Empathy: A Core Condition for Humanistic Design

Many involved in human-centred design (ergonomics, human factors, UX, interaction design, etc) have an internal…

Human Factors and Humanistic Psychology: Distant Cousins

Human factors and humanistic psychology are two human disciplines that emerged from adversity during the…