The Department of Mines, Industry, Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) are conducting human factors assessments to establish an industry baseline. These assessments aim to obtain an accurate picture of the current state of human factors integration into safety management systems. DMIRS will then use this information to determine what resources and...
Human Performance Strategies
1 HSE/Human Performance Strategies This section describes strategies to improve human performance and HSE in complex, high risk workplaces. It stems from three focus areas commonly used in the human factors literature and NOPSEMA [Ref 2]. These include: Organisation;Job/Work Environment; andIndividual. It is recognised that these are broad focus areas...
User Centred Design
Human-centred design is an approach to interactive systems development that aims to make systems usableand useful by focusing on the users, their needs and requirements, and by applying human factors / ergonomics, and usability knowledge and techniques. This approach enhances effectiveness and efficiency, improves human well-being, user satisfaction, accessibility and...
Ergonomics and Green Star Certification
Green Star is Australia's trusted mark of quality for the design, construction and operation of sustainable buildings, fit-outs and communities. From an ergonomic perspective it ensures the design or selection of work settings, equipment and furniture is shown to address the ergonomic needs of the user specific to that work...
Management of Psychosocial Risks
The management of psychosocial risks is an importance part of personnel wellbeing and human performance. Many companies manage this through an annual schedule of activities yet often fail to get to effectively embed the primary interventions which effectively create a psychologically safe workplace. The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and...
Human Factors in Incident Investigations
A number of regulators within Australia have requirements or provide guidance relating to the effective consideration of human factors within incident investigations. NOPSEMA provides the following guidance regarding human error and approaches to help reduce the likelihood of human error resulting in an incident. https://www.nopsema.gov.au/resources/human-factors/human-error/
AS 7470 – Human Factors Integration in Engineering Design
The Rail Safety and Standards Board (RISSB) published AS7470 - Human Factors Integration in Engineering Design in 2016 to support the effective consideration of human factors in rail projects. The following excerpt taken from the RISSB website describes the requirements and more information can be found a this link. https://www.rissb.com.au/products/as-7470-human-factors-integration-in-engineering-design-general-requirements/...
Human Factors Training
We have recently been requested to deliver human factors training for a major client in Perth, Western Australia. This will be split over three modules and include both theoretical and practical activities to cover: Managing human reliabilityMaintenance, inspection and testing errorHuman factors engineeringProcedure design and usabilityOrganisational change managementSafety critical communicationFatigue...
BHP Billiton’s Integrated Remote Operation Centre
We are pleased to announce we'll be providing human factors engineering support to BHP Billiton's Iron Ore Rail Technology Program. This will focus on the design of the Integrated Remote Operations Centre and will include: Development of the human factors integration planWorkplace ergonomics reviewUseability trialsReview of procedures and user manualsSite...
Human Factors in Control Centre Design
Operations control centres are complete work environments and can be demanding. Simple operator errors such as incorrect actions, omissions, mis-interpretations or sequencing errors can be potentially disastrous. Therefore the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) has developed a comprehensive suite of technical documents support effective control centre design. They aim to...