A Human Factors Integration Plan (HFIP) describes the technical and management framework for Human Factors Integration (HFI) across a project. It assures the Principal that all delivered assets are safe to operate and maintain, and that operations, maintenance and other end-user activities are not compromised during design and construction. The...
Internal Human Factors Governance
Coretex Consulting has been supporting the Water Corporation in Perth and throughout Western Australia to develop internal standards and guidelines to ensure effective consideration of Human Factors Integration (HFI) and Human Factors Engineering (HFE) within the project lifecycle. Typcally the two documents described below are sufficient to support projects to identify and execute HFE...
Human and Organsitional Performance HOP
As well as Human Factors Engineering (HFE) Coretex Consulting works with leading Iron Ore companies in Western Australia to support Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) strategies. Our team, which consists of Human Performance specialists, Organisational Psychologists and Organisational Development specialists, is currently delivering projects with Rio Tinto and FMG which...
Human Factors Integration within DMIRS
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...
Stephenson Avenue Project
Coretex Consulting has been selected by the S2M Evolution Alliance to provide human factors engineering support for Phase 2 of the Stepheson Avenue Extension project. This project involves a wide range of stakeholders including: The Public Transport Authority, City of Stirling and Main Roads. The project includes: A new connection...
Human Performance / Human Factors in Mining and Exploration.
Coretex Consulting has recently been working with two Mining Companies across both Western and South Australia to support human performance within their drilling and exploration activities. This included both human reliability studies to prevent errors and optimise performance during sampling activities, and manual task studies to mitigate the risk of...
Autonomous Haulage Systems: (Alarm Management)
We were recently requested to undertake an analysis of the collision avoidance system (CAS) within support vehicles to support the transition to Autonomous Haulage. Here is one of the key findings below. Nuisance Alarms Nuisance alarms were experienced regularly across all vehicles. Alarms rarely required a response from the operator...
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...
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...