By The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA)
The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.
Kath Jones is chatting to Professor Anjum Naweed one the the keynote speakers at the HFESA conference in Brisbane in November this year about Simulation and AI.
Professor Anjum Naweed is from the Appleton Institute for Behavioural Science in South Australia—the Adelaide-based campus of CQUniversity.
Anjum is a Certified Professional Ergonomist with a background in psychology and expertise in human factors and systems thinking. He has over 15 years of experience across a range of industry sectors and occupational settings.
Anjum’s research has received many accolades in recognition of his excellence in research activity, publication, and engagement and he has twice received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Researcher of the Year (2013; 2018) at his university.
He currently serves a Scientific Editor for Applied Ergonomics, an international journal aimed at ergonomists and all those interested in applying ergonomics and human factors in the design, planning and management of technical and social systems at work or leisure. He has been a Scientific Convenor for the Australasian Simulation Congress on five consecutive occasions, and for the Annual HFESA Conference twice.
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Sharon Todd and Professor Mark Young the current President of the CIEHF discuss his work in automated transport and the Think Human project to be launched in the midlands of the UK.
Professor Mark Young is Professor of Human Factors in Transport within the Transportation Research Group at the University of Southampton and current President of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF). Mark has nearly 30 years’ experience working in human factors across transport modes in both academia and industry. Before joining the University of Southampton in June 2023, Mark spent 11 years working as an Inspector at the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, applying his human factors expertise to the investigation of railway incidents and accidents. Prior to this Mark undertook a six-month fellowship at UNSW in Australia with Prof Jason Middleton in 2004 as well as later completing a visiting post at Curtin Monash University with Prof Lynn Meuleners in the early 2010s.Mark has written over 70 peer-reviewed journal papers and five books, he is a Chartered Ergonomist and a Fellow of the CIEHF.
For more background or to connect with Mark, go to:
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/62gmgv/professor-mark-young
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If you want to find out more about Human Factors and Ergonomics or if you have a question about this podcast please go to the HFESA website ergonomics.org.au and make your request via our contact page. We will be back with more episodes soon!
Sharon Todd is chatting to Chris Fitzgerald about his practical application of Ergonomics and Humans factors to minimise injury risk.
Chris Fitzgerald is a passionate Certified Professional Ergonomist whose career emphasis has been on facilitating meaningful and durable improvement in the design of work. His original career was in Prosthetics and Orthotics, but after 5 years of working in clinical environments, he transferred to Ergonomics to work in occupational settings and has operated his own consulting business, Risk and Injury Management Services, since 1993.
A feature of Chris’s work has been the measurement of human activity in workplaces. This has involved quantifying force exertion in complex environments, the use of EMG to understand patterns of muscle activity and the utilisation of a whole-body system of 17 movement sensors to define the physical requirements of work tasks.
Chris has been fortunate to work across a diverse range of industries and has developed specific expertise within emergency services (fire and ambulance), red meat processing, disability support services and the television industry to name a few. Chris’s work in ambulance design extended to his role for 8 years as the Head of Ergonomics for the Emergency Medical Services Safety Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation based in New York, USA. The Foundation had a global reach with involvement across North America, Europe and Asia, and actively promoted new approaches to the design of ambulances and methods of patient and equipment handling for paramedics.
More recently Chris has gone back to his prosthetics roots where he has just completed a 3-year project in Indonesia, Timor Leste and Cambodia, with RMIT University in Melbourne. This project involved overseeing the implementation of a novel way of casting the transtibial residual limb of amputees using water pressure that resulted in a 60% efficiency gain for casting, manufacture and fitting and delivered a remarkable 96% approval rating from recipient amputees.
Chris’s current focus is on his role as a change leader within the Australian red meat processing industry where he is leading the industry’s selective introduction of exoskeletons.
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If you want to find out more about Human Factors and Ergonomics or if you have a question about this podcast please go to the HFESA website ergonomics.org.au and make your request via our contact page. We will be back with more episodes soon!
Sharon Todd is chatting to Adam Scott, the Director of Cardiac Sciences at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital. Adam has a PhD in Cardiac Medicine, from the University of London, Imperial College in the UK. Adam is an Adjunct Professor at QUT and is the Founder and Chairman of the White Cloud Foundation. He is passionate about creating solutions for problems in the health sector that have previously not been able to be solved. In doing so, he has created a Robotic Ultrasound solution to enable patients in regional/rural areas to access same day ultrasound procedures. At the White Cloud Foundation, he developed the Tele-Mental Health service which has removed the barriers to accessing mental health treatment. In 2024, his efforts were recognised when he was announced as a finalist for the Qld Australian of the Year.
Adam declares he is a Director of RMI Oceania, which is the company that has developed the Robotic Ultrasound solution.
This educational podcast is brought to you by the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia. If you like this podcast please make us your favourite on your podcast app.
If you want to find out more about Human Factors and Ergonomics or if you have a question about this podcast please go to the HFESA website ergonomics.org.au and make your request via our contact page. We will be back with more episodes soon!
Kath Jones from the HFESA is chatting to Tim Bentley about Mental Health Awareness, respect and safety.
Professor Tim Bentley is an experienced research leader with more than two decades in research and academic leadership roles. Tim joined the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University as Professor of Work and Wellbeing in 2019, and in 2023, took up the position of Director of the ECU Mental Awareness, Respect and Safety (MARS) Centre. The MARS Centre was created as part of a multi-million-dollar partnership between ECU and the State Government. As both MARS Centre Director and Mining Work Health and Safety (WHS) Professorial Chair, Tim leads a program of research, teaching and engagement designed to elevate mining sector WHS capability and to move the dial on sector culture towards greater respect and safety.
Prior to joining SBL, Tim’s New Zealand-based roles included Director of the New Zealand Work Research Institute and Auckland University of Technology’s Future of Work Program; Director of Massey University’s Healthy Work Group; and Director of the Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics at Forest Research in New Zealand. Tim is also a former Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge University Press publication, Journal of Management & Organization, and has served as Scientific Editor for the Elsevier international publication, Applied Ergonomics.
Tim’s impactful research primarily focuses on psychosocial risk, workplace bullying, and new ways of working, and he is passionate about creating healthy work for the advancement of organisational and employee wellbeing. Tim’s research has been supported by almost AU$9M of external funding from government and industry within New Zealand and Australia, while his published research is extensive and has received considerable scholarly attention.
This educational podcast is brought to you by the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia. If you like this podcast please make us your favourite on your podcast app.
If you want to find out more about Human Factors and Ergonomics or if you have a question about this podcast please go to the HFESA website ergonomics.org.au and make your request via our contact page. We will be back with more episodes soon!
Why do we seek to blame someone or say it is Human Error without firstly using a systems thinking approach to analyse the influencing factors surrounding an incident?
Sharon Todd discusses 'Blame' and what we can 'Learn' from a Systems Thinking approach with Gemma Read.
Associate Professor Gemma Read is the Director of the Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems and an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of the Sunshine Coast. She has degrees in behavioural science and law and completed her PhD at Monash University. She has over 16 years’ experience applying human factors and systems thinking methods in both academia and government roles. Her work spans a range of domains including transportation, healthcare, construction, defence, sport and outdoor recreation.
For further reading
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00140139.2021.1953615
State of science: evolving perspectives on ‘human error’
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If you want to find out more about Human Factors and Ergonomics or if you have a question about this podcast please go to the HFESA website ergonomics.org.au and make your request via our contact page. We will be back with more episodes soon!
Kath Jones is chatting to Sandra Lam about the psychological health of "fly in fly out" (FIFO) workers.
Kath Jones holds qualifications in psychology and occupational therapy and has been an active member of the HFESA for 15 years and is currently as executive board member for the society. She practices human factors and ergonomics through engaging with organisations on designing mentally healthy workplaces as a work health and safety regulator.
Sandra Lam is an Endorsed Organisational Psychologist and Managing Director of FIFO Focus, a psychology firm that empowers individuals to become mentally resilient, and support organisations to handle the complexities of psychological health among remote workers. She has over two decades of industry experience in the public and private sectors, in Australia and overseas. Throughout her career, Sandra has assisted organisations to improve organisational performance by making workplaces safer, more engaging, and more enjoyable.
This educational podcast is brought to you by the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia. If you like this podcast please make us your favourite on your podcast app.
If you want to find out more about Human Factors and Ergonomics or if you have a question about this podcast please go to the HFESA website ergonomics.org.au and make your request via our contact page. We will be back with more episodes soon!
Dr Robyn Coman from the University of Wolllongoing is discussing Extended Reality Simulation with Dr Shiva Pedram from the University of Newcastle, and Grace Kennedy from Acema.
Dr Shiva Pedram is an experienced UX Research Specialist and Service Designer, specialising in the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and service design within emerging technologies.
With 12+ years of dedicated work in industry & academic environments, she has strategically led efforts to research, design, and refine services that significantly improve user interactions and satisfaction in multiple sectors -health, insurance, tourism, e-commerce, and digital government services.
Grace Kennedy is Systems Engineering and Human Factors professional with over 15 year's experience in the Infrastructure, Rail, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Defence Research sectors in Australia and the UK. Research Interests and Expertise: Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Organisational Systems Engineering (how to model “soft”/human aspects within the context of enterprise systems), Enterprise modelling and architectures, Human Systems Integration., Systems Ergonomics, Human Reliability Assessment. Systems Resilience for Critical Infrastructure Systems. Grace is the co-chair of the INCOSE Human Systems Integration (HSI) Working Group.
This educational podcast is brought to you by the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia. If you like this podcast please make us your favourite on your podcast app.
If you want to find out more about Human Factors and Ergonomics or if you have a question about this podcast please go to the HFESA website ergonomics.org.au and make your request via our contact page. We will be back with more episodes soon!
Sharon Todd and Andrew Wright discuss User Testing in good design.
The views expressed by Andrew Wright within the HFESA PodCast are his own and not those of any organisation he works for or with, or linked to any project he works on – past or present.
Andrew is a Principal Human Factors Consultant at Tactix Sener, primarily supporting the transport, nuclear and defence industries throughout the product and system lifecycle and providing Experience Design in Digital and Built Environments.
Andrew primarily works in safety critical industries though is comfortable working in diverse domains and delivering on human factors projects from bespoke to large scale. Experienced with a range of methods – task analysis, data gathering, focus groups, human-machine interface, usability, human computer interaction, inclusive design, human error analysis, system of systems analysis. Andrew holds a MSc in Psychology with a Human Factors specialisation, and a BSc in Movement Science with a Biomechanics major. Andrew has applied human factors across a range of Information Technology, OHS, product design, transport and industrial operations in the U.S. and Australia. For many years Andrew directed Wright Moves Consulting, a human factors consultancy focused on making systems work.
Andrew consults extensively in the nuclear industry, including a recent major project for the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organsiation (ANSTO), resulting in the ANSTO Human Factors Integration Plan.
Andrew lectured in ergonomics and human factors at the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong 2015-2022. He is a former member Research Associate at the Australian Health Services Research Institute (AHSRI), where he researched the usability of technology and equipment. Andrew served on the National Executive Board of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA) from 2016 – 2022, including as General Secretary (2020-2022), and served as the professional development officer for the NSW HFESA branch and on the NSW Branch Committee, 2015-2019.
Andrew has presented and published on human factors on a range of topics, including co-authorship on the recent “The What, Why and How of Good Work Design: The Perspective of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia, presented at the 2021 Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) conference and published in the conference proceedings.
Andrew is a member of Systems Engineers Society of Australia (SESA), and a member of International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), and a member of the Human Systems Integration (HIS) writing group providing all HSI for the upcoming 5th edition of the INCOSE Systems Engineering Manual: A guide for System Life Cycle Processes and Activities
This educational podcast is brought to you by the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia. If you like this podcast please make us your favourite on your podcast app.
If you want to find out more about Human Factors and Ergonomics or if you have a question about this podcast please go to the HFESA website ergonomics.org.au and make your request via our contact page. We will be back with more episodes soon!
Carlo , Robyn and Vinod are discussing the impact that the absence of suitable seating and poorly designed seating has on older adults in public places. The public seating project identified poor design, the coping behaviours of older adults needed and the impact that poor seating has on people with physical limitations and on their social identity.
An audit tool was devised to gather data, to understand the problem and to inform the guidance that can be provided to those designing public spaces, local government and manufacturers.
The significance of this work includes the understanding that older adults need to be independent and this can be affected by features of the environment. We are living longer and being part of the community and socialising and living well is enabled with well designed public seating.
Associate Professor Carlo Caponecchia is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW, Associate Dean Equity Diversity and Inclusion, in the Faculty of Science UNSW.
Dr Robyn Coman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, a Physiotherapist and Ergonomist.
Vinod Gopaldasani is the Associate Dean (Global Engagement), Director of the Centre for Occupational Public and Environment Research in Safety and Health and Head of Discipline OHS at the University of Wollongong.
This educational podcast is brought to you by the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society of Australia. If you like this podcast please make us your favourite on your podcast app.
If you want to find out more about Human Factors and Ergonomics or if you have a question about this podcast please go to the HFESA website ergonomics.org.au and make your request via our contact page. We will be back with more episodes soon!
The podcast currently has 40 episodes available.