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 Surgical approach to Human Factors - An interview with Peter Brennan
June 20, 2022
Professor Peter Brennan is a NHS Consultant Surgeon in Portsmouth, specialising in head and neck cancer. Barry talks with him to see how he is driving Human Factors approaches from his perspective. To date, Peter has publi…
HFES - The Presidents Perspective - An interview with Chris Reid
June 6, 2022
Chris Reid is the Human Factors and Ergonomics Boeing Technical Fellow within the Environment, Health and Safety organization at Boeing. He is also the current President at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). …
Ergonomics and Human Factors Conference 2022 - Review
May 23, 2022
Barry talks to attendees and some of the key people behind the scenes about putting together EHF 2022 and what they thought of the result. Fair warning, this is the first time ever that Barry has put together a multi-pers…
Farming, Decision Making and IOT - An interview with John Owen
April 18, 2022
In this podcast, Barry interviews John Owen, Project Manager at Gelli Aur Farm, Coleg Sir Gar, where they teach agriculture students about using future technologies in farming, as well as providing cutting edge research util…
The Burning Issue - An Interview with Nick Rutter from Fire Angel
April 4, 2022
Humans are currently blamed for the majority of damaging dwelling fires. An underlying reason behind that is a lack of knowledge of how people behave when waking up bleary eyed to a smoke or fire alarm. Nick Rutter,
Supporting Musculoskeletal Health - an interview with FLX Health and Arco
March 21, 2022
In this interview, the topic of musculoskeletal disorders are a leading cause of occupational ill health in the UK, accounting for 30% of all work-related ill health cases and 27% of lost working days. Affecting 14.9 million…
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…
