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 two Australian researchers

Jolene Cox discussing a March 2024 article

An incident reporting and learning system to understand cycling incident causation in Australia: A 12-month implementation of CRIT

And

Elizabeth Austin discussing a May 2024 article

Eadem Sed Aliter. Validating an emergency department work domain analysis across three hospital configurations

Paper #1 Validating an emergency department work domain analysis across three hospital configurations

This paper presents the process and findings of validating a work domain analysis model of the Emergency Department system across three hospitals of different size and services. Conceptually, it asks the question, are all EDs fundamentally the same? Methodologically, it asks the question, how do you conduct research in a highly dynamic, busy environment with time-poor participants? While EDs differ in their resources, their underlying system is the same. Having a blue-print of the ED system provides the opportunity to explore, in a data-informed way, system improvements that result in better care for patients and staff, whilst maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. The blue-print provides the opportunity to share and customise innovations across EDs in a way that has not been done before.

Elizabeth Austin – Speaker bio

Elizabeth Austin is a Research Fellow in the Human Factors and Resilience Team at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, and uses social psychology theories and human factors methods to better understand and design complex systems. Her recent work focuses on Emergency Departments and how to improve care experiences, outcomes, staff experiences, and system performance. She guest lectures at Macquarie University and University of NSW

Paper #2 An incident reporting and learning system to understand cycling incident causation in Australia: a 12-month implementation of CRIT

Our knowledge base on cyclist safety is limited as existing data systems are inadequate for understanding cycling incident causation. This paper describes findings from a 12-month implementation of a cyclist incident reporting and learning system, known as the Cyclist Reporting of Incidents Tool (CRIT). The CRIT app provided cyclists with a mechanism to report information about their cycling participation and details (including contributory factors) of their cycling incidents. The study adopted a novel approach to the analysis of cycling incidents, by using a systems model of accident causation (a modified Rasmussen’s Risk Management Framework) to understand the contributory factors to cycling incidents. Cyclist safety has much more to gain by implementing appropriate incident reporting systems.

Dr Jolene Cox – Speaker Bio

Jolene Cox is a Research Fellow and the research theme leader for Societal Health and Wellbeing at the Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems, University of the Sunshine Coast. Her current research is interdisciplinary, integrating knowledge and methods from complex systems science and health/mental health research. She is also a cognitive psychologist.

When: Monday 19th August 2024 – 6pm – 7:30pm AEST

Where: via zoom

Cost: FREE!