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
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 health…
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…
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 i…
RAF Safety and Just Culture
Over the past decade or so, the Royal Air Force has been going through a cultural evolution. In this episode, Ian and Avril give …
HF in Rail - An interview with David Golightly
David Golightly is a lecturer at Newcastle University and works in the field of cognitive ergonomics, understanding the factors t…
The Surgical approach to Human Factors - An interview with Peter Bren…
Professor Peter Brennan is a NHS Consultant Surgeon in Portsmouth, specialising in head and neck cancer. Barry talks with him to…
HFES - The Presidents Perspective - An interview with Chris Reid
Chris Reid is the Human Factors and Ergonomics Boeing Technical Fellow within the Environment, Health and Safety organization at …
Ergonomics and Human Factors Conference 2022 - Review
Barry talks to attendees and some of the key people behind the scenes about putting together EHF 2022 and what they thought of th…
Farming, Decision Making and IOT - An interview with John Owen
In this podcast, Barry interviews John Owen, Project Manager at Gelli Aur Farm, Coleg Sir Gar, where they teach agriculture stude…
The Burning Issue - An Interview with Nick Rutter from Fire Angel
Humans are currently blamed for the majority of damaging dwelling fires. An underlying reason behind that is a lack of knowledge…
Supporting Musculoskeletal Health - an interview with FLX Health and …
In this interview, the topic of musculoskeletal disorders are a leading cause of occupational ill health in the UK, accounting fo…
Recent Blog Posts
10,000 Audio Downloads
This is an amazing milestone to hit. According to our Audio host, Bluberry, there have been over 10,000 downloads of 1202 podcast episodes. A…
1202 Human Factors Podcast Statistics 2021
A roundup of listenership of 1202 - The Human Factors Podcast up to the end of December 2021.
Categories and competencies
Having had a lot of categories and no real way of controlling them, I have been pondering about what would be a more sensible approach, what would be use…