2024 Human Factors In Healthcare: Designing Safe Systems (short course)

19/08/2024 – 04/10/2024 @ All Day – This short course was designed by and for healthcare professionals to introduce the discipline of Human Factors and how it can contribute to improving the quality and safety of care. The course consists of 7 modules covering key topics and shows how a systems approach can inform solutions and prevent harm. It is delivered online […]

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IEA Webinar – Human Factors at the core of collaborative intelligence application in safety critical systems:  lessons learnt from the Marie Curie project CISC

24/10/2024 @ All Day – 2nd Webinar: 24 October 2024, 18:00-19:00 (Rome time zone) Title: “Human Factors at the core of collaborative intelligence application in safety critical systems: lessons learnt from the Marie Curie project CISC” Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZItf-Cqrz0jH9bGxc2WrnrlsjZfucuqCKaF

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News

Safety On Tap: Human Factors, Error, Blame & Systems Thinking, with A/Prof Gemma Read

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EUROCONTROL Webinar – A Life in Pictures: Gretchen Haskins – bringing breakthroughs in safety performance.

05/07/2024 @ All Day – This webinar series delves into the lives and careers of inspirational people who have made a significant difference to the safety and performance of safety-critical industries. Our guest is Gretchen Haskins, who will reflect on ten pictures to tell the story of her life. Hosted by Steven Shorrock.  With Gretchen Haskins, Board Director for HeliOffShore […]

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Mastering Systems Human Factors and Ergonomics: A Methods Masterclass Series

10/09/2024 – 11/09/2024 @ All Day – Want to put Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) and systems thinking into practice in your work? Are you interested in learning key systems HFE methods? Traditional strategies for managing safety and improving work design are reaching the limits of their effectiveness. In order to achieve organisational objectives, we must acknowledge that outcomes in complex systems […]

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HFESA PD – Discussing systems in cycling incidents and working in an emergency department: The stories of two academic’s recent research

19/08/2024 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Welcome to the new HFESA webinar series that discusses recently published HFE research articles. Each event invites two people from Australian or overseas to share with us insights into their respective article. The variety of researchers, speakers and stories cover all four pillars of HFE for our enjoyment and knowledge. The first in the series introduces […]

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Reimagining Inpatient Falls: A Safety II Perspective – Humanitix

02/04/2024 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Event description April is traditionally a time of renewal for fall prevention programs in hospitals and residential care facilities across Australia (and the world over).  Yet, even after decades of research, awareness campaigns and program-level responses, the issue of avoidable falls is still unresolved, and as challenging as ever. What can organisations do in 2024 to transform fall […]

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QLD PD – Sneaking Systems through the Alley

31/05/2023 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Sneaking Systems through the Alley: Finding opportunities for Systems Thinking within the industrial context. (online National webinar, presented by Brian Thoroman, PhD, Queensland Rail). Systems Thinking models and methods are generally acknowledged as best ‘state-of-the-art’ practice in academia and can provide critical insights for industry. However, the anecdotal industrial view of the ‘condescending ivory tower’ […]

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Organistional

Principles and guidelines for human factors/ergonomics (HFE) design and management of work systems

https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_dialogue/—lab_admin/documents/publication/wcms_826596.pdf

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QLD PD – AcciMap: a systems thinking approach to accident investigation and analysis

31/08/2022 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – AcciMap: a systems thinking approach to accident investigation and analysis AcciMap is a systems thinking-based accident analysis method which provides a means with which to describe and analyse accidents through the lens of Jens Rasmussen’s risk management framework (Rasmussen, 1997). This webinar will provide an overview of AcciMap and its applications across the safety critical […]

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Healthy Safe and Effective Workplaces; a WA Branch smorgasbord

26/08/2021 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – The WA Branch of HFESA is a hosting National PD event via Zoom. Ari Antonovsky, Kath Jones and Stephanie Black will present their recent or upcoming conference papers on the theme of “Healthy Safe and Effective Workplaces”. Join us via Zoom from 17:30 (AWST) / 19:30 (AEST) PROGRAM 17:30-17:55 Using mixed methods to strengthen connections […]

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WA PD event: Backsafe Australia

15/06/2017 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Who We Are Backsafe Australia is a family owned and operated business. We provide solutions for safer work environments. You can source any storage or material handling solutions from Backsafe Australia for your shop or factory floor. With a combined experience of more than twenty years, in the workshop equipment supply and design sector, we […]

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The International Conference Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety – HEPS 2019

03/07/2019 – 05/07/2019 @ 12:00 am – The International Conference Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety – HEPS 2019 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 3rd – 5th, July 2019, at Marriot Hotel. The topic of this 6th edition of HEPS is “Building Health and Social Care Systems for the Future: Demographic Changes, Digital Age and Human Factors”. HEPS conferences, endorsed by […]

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Optimising the Interaction Between Users and Automated Systems

22/05/2019 @ 8:45 am – 11:45 pm – Public Transport Victoria’s Human Factors Team and the Transport Special Interest Group at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia invite you to a morning of talks on the application of human factors methods and research to inform the integration of users and automated systems. Morning Talks Rail operations in Australia are on the […]

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