2024 Human Factors In Healthcare: Designing Safe Systems (short course)
25/03/2024 – 10/05/2024 @ 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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Safety On Tap: Human Factors, Error, Blame & Systems Thinking, with A/Prof Gemma Read
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Posted on byReimagining 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 […]
Posted on byQLD 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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Principles and guidelines for human factors/ergonomics (HFE) design and management of work systems
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Posted on byQLD 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 […]
Posted on byHealthy 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 […]
Posted on byWA 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 […]
Posted on byThe 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 […]
Posted on byOptimising 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 […]
Posted on by2nd International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design: Future Trends and Applications (IHSED 2019), Germany
16/09/2019 – 18/09/2019 @ 12:00 am – IHSED 2019 Conference aims to provide a global forum for presenting and discussing novel design and systems engineering approaches, tools, methodologies, techniques, and solutions for integrating people, concepts, trends and applications in all areas of human endeavor in industry, economy, government, and education, including but not limited to energy, transportation, urbanization and infrastructure development, digital manufacturing, […]
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Identifying and Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work
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Posted on byHealthcare Ergonomics: Resilience in Healthcare
16/10/2023 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm – HealthSIG is excited to bring you the 3rd professional development session for 2023. The virtual session brings together three presentations by Australian HFE specialists who work in resilience in healthcare. About Robyn … Associate Professor Robyn Clay-Williams leads a research program at the Australian Institute of Health and Innovation, Macquarie University, in the field of […]
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Posted on byHFESA PD – Sharpening your writing skills as a HF Professional with Deborah Loats
25/03/2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – A core skill of a human factors professional is writing. In most cases it must cater to a range of audiences, with different levels human factors knowledge, within a prescribed scope and format, all within a ridiculous timeframe! In the transport industry, this can be further complicated with lots of technical jargon, endless acronyms and […]
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Artificial General Intelligence – Challenges for the Future of Work
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