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HFESTG - Health Care
Episode 56
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! Did you know that the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society has 24 technical groups that are concerned wi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Workplace Safety
Episode 55
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! A U.S. worker dies as a result of a workplace injury every 2 hours. In 2011 alone, almost 4 million U.S…
2 years, 3 months ago
Work Sampling
Episode 54
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! Work sampling is a method in which the job is sampled at random intervals to determine the proportion o…
2 years, 3 months ago
Chernobyl (Part 5)
Episode 53
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! Highly-trained and experienced operators can often compensate for a poor design; however, in the case o…
2 years, 3 months ago
HFESTG - Forensics
Episode 52
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! Members of the Forensics Professional Group are interested in all aspects of human factors as applied t…
2 years, 4 months ago
Time Studies
Episode 51
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! A time study is a structured process of directly observing and measuring human work using a timing devi…
2 years, 4 months ago
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Episode 50
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an association dedicated to advancing i…
2 years, 4 months ago
Chernobyl (Part 4)
Episode 49
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! In our previous Human Factors Minute on the Chernobyl disaster, we mentioned that the International Ato…
2 years, 5 months ago
Safety Culture
Episode 48
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! Safety culture is about what people do (safety-related behaviours); how people feel (individual and gro…
2 years, 5 months ago
Wizard of Oz
Episode 47
...and now for another Human Factors Minute! The Wizard of Oz method is a process that allows a user to interact with an interface without knowing t…
2 years, 5 months ago