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What is Human Factors?
A body of scientific facts about human characteristics used to
optimise performance within the work environment. Human Factors
covers a wide range of psychological, biomedical and organisational
considerations which include, but are not limited to:
- The impact of environmental, organisational and job factors
on human performance;
- Accounting for human psychological and physiological limitations;
- Equipment physical and logical design;
- The impact of organisational cultures on human performance.
Human factors in health and safety
How work is designed, organised and managed can have a major impact
on health and safety. Similarly, individual attitudes, competence
and personality exert a significant influence. As many industries
strive to improve their health and safety performance, they have
experienced diminishing returns from investment in technical and
procedural controls, and wish to understand how to influence the
human and organisational factors which impact on health and safety.
The Keil Centre's Chartered Occupational Psychologists have a
strong reputation for providing practical human factors tools
and techniques for industry. Their continuing involvement in current
applied research projects for the UK Health and Safety Executive
and industry bodies ensures all of their human factors work has
a sound basis in contemporary research.
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Innovative professional development programme in human
factors in health and safety launched
The Keil Centre, in partnership with the Institution of
Chemical Engineers, have launched a two-year modular professional
development programme on human factors in health and safety.
This novel programme will alternate between Schipol, Netherlands
and Edinburgh, UK.
See the attached programme
for details.
http://www.icheme.org/human_factors
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Download our human factors capability statement here.
Major areas of expertise are listed below.
Please contact Ronny Lardner at The Keil Centre on (00 44) 131
667 8059, alternatively e-mail Ronny
to discuss other human factors requirements.
