1202 - The Human Factors Podcast
1202 - The Human Factors Podcast
Barry Kirby explores aspects of Human Factors, from practitioners in the field, through Processes and Tools that are useful (or not) and other Information and News that may be beneficial. For HF people to keep in touch and non-HF people to hear what we do.
Recent Episodes
Jenny Radcliffe - The People Hacker
Jenny Radcliffe gives insights into the domain of Social Engineering and Penetration Testing.
The Clinical Human Factors Group - An Interview with Martin Bromiley …
Martin Bromiley talks about his determination for more Human Factors in the medical domain and the formation of the Clinical Human Factors Group (CHFG).
Workplace assessments for Audio and Visually impaired staff - An Inte…
Dan Williams shares his expertise in the need and value of conducting appropriate workplace assessments for audio and visually impaired staff.
Reflections on Human Factors applications - An interview with Steven …
Steven Shorrock gives us an overview of his career, with candid reflections on significant influences on his career. He reflects on how HF has evolved through his career and gives his thoughts on where it should go in the fut...
2022 in review - What have you been engaging with?
2022 has been a year of, hopefully positive, change, with 20 episodes covering a wide range of topics. In this review, Barry highlights some of the most popular.
The CIEHF - behind the scenes - An interview with Tina Worthy
Tina Worthy is the COO of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. She shares with us just how the organisation has achieved so much especially considering the relatively small number of staff, and where she s...
Rail Investigations - An interview with Becky Charles
Becky Charles is an investigator with the Rail Accident Investigation Branch and in this interview she gives us insights into what the role is and how Human Factors is a key component of the overall team.
Proactive Learning - An interview with Dr Marcin Nazaruk
Current approaches to defining and understanding safety risk can be seen to rely heavily on incidents occurring or near misses being reported. Dr Marcin Nazaruk talks with Barry about a new approach he is driving called Proactive Learning, or in …
The Dirty Dozen - An interview with Michael Bates and Gordon Dupont
Michael Bates interviews Gordon Dupont about the creation of the "Dirty Dozen" the 12 main reasons behind why human error occurs.
Applying Human Factors on the ground - An interview with Suzy Broadbe…
Suzy Broadbent is a Fellow of the CIEHF with twenty years experience working in Human Factors across defence, rail and now healthcare domains. She gave the Institute Lecture at EHF2022. This discussion looks back at her career and then dives …
Publishing Human Factors books - An interview with Bob Bridger
We all have our "go to" reference book: but how do you go about writing and publishing such a thing? Past President of the CIEHF, Robert Bridger, gives us an insight into the art of writing, publishing and updating Human …
Human Factors in Iarnród Éireann - An interview with Nora Balfe
Iarnród Éireann, or Irish Rail, has its own share of Human Factors Challenges, and the person with the challenge of ensuring HF is kept up to standard is Nora Balfe. In this episode, Nora gives us an insight into the …