Understanding Human Factors in your workplace
This one-day course, aimed at any professional group, will explain what Human Factors are in the context of dealing with crisis in your work place. We will explore how the understanding of Human Factors has been developed first in aviation and then transferred to other safety critical industries.
We will consider how this learning can increase performance and awareness of barriers in your day-to-day life. Your tutor will be expert in human factors in health care and we will consider how learning from working in this complex environment transfers to your practice.
Course lead
Gomathy Kandasamy
Consultant Anaesthetist and Educator
Helen Mills
Nurse and Clinical Educator
Indicative timetable (subject to modifications when tailoring to specific teams)
| 9:00 | Introduction and ice breaker |
| 9:30 | What is Human factors and Crisis Resource Management? |
| 10:30 | Tea |
| 11:00 | Team game with exploration of Human Factors behaviour in debrif |
| 12:00 | How does my mind work under pressure- thinking fast thinking slow |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Team game with exploration of behaviour in debrief |
| 2:30 | Cognitive biases and debiasing techniques |
| 3:30 | Coffee |
| 3:45 | Video with exploration of behaviour in debrief |
| 4:30 | Q and A |
| 4:45 | Close |