‘Human Factors’ (or Ergonomics) is often presented as something that it’s not, or as something…
Tag: ergonomics
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.
The term ‘Human Performance’ (and ‘Human and Organisational Performance’ (or HOP) has become increasingly common…
This article was published in The Ergonomist, published by the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and…
In a recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper by journalist Liam Mannix (A…
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…
You’d expect that Human Factors/Ergonomics would be very relevant to the NHS. But is it actually integrated?
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.
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