Driving towards acceptance – why young people engage in risky behaviour on...
Psychologist Lauren Weston discusses why young people put themselves at risk while driving Young drivers are involved in more road traffic collisions than any other age group. In the UK, road deaths...
View ArticleThe Right Behaviour
It may seem obvious that certain ways of behaving are better than others. It’s better to speak up about a safety risk than it is to keep quiet about it. It’s better to shut doors and turn off lights...
View ArticleUser Centred Design to feature in D&T A-Level
Design and Technology is the third most popular school subject in the UK, and all school students study it for several years, with a good number going on to A-level. However, the syllabi are set by the...
View ArticleHuman factors in healthcare
Humans as the source of safety Caring for people’s health is a complicated process, fraught with danger. The opportunities to make mistakes are many and the personal responsibility felt by healthcare...
View ArticleUnlimited ergonomics
One outstanding feature of ergonomists and human factors specialists is their agility – the way in which they can take established principles and processes from one arena and successfully adapt them,...
View ArticleThe Human Connection
Professor Sarah Sharples, CIEHF president 2015-2016, discusses ‘The Human Connection,’ case studies that demonstrate the value of ergonomics and human factors At the Ergonomics and Human Factors...
View ArticleA high point
This year’s Ergonomics & Human Factors conference was said by some to be the best yet, with a record 300 attendees and extremely high quality presentations, keynotes and plenaries. There was a...
View ArticleAcademic impact
In academia there is a great deal of focus currently on impact – the effect that research has on real-world problems. Universities are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that the research carried...
View ArticleMaking sense of it all
There is a general assumption that given the right information, people will examine their options and come to a sensible conclusion. It is also assumed that in order to get information from someone,...
View ArticleImagining disaster
Plans and imagination are rarely enough to understand how a particular system or product will function in real life. Try as we might to bear everything in mind, something always gets forgotten and...
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