Human Factors & Ergonomics (HFE) Hub

Sharon Todd is chatting to Sam Gerges about his ergonomics programs to minimise injuries and reduce injury costs in Vehicle Manufacturing.

Sam is a qualified physiotherapist, egonomics and occupational health and safety specialist with over 15 years experience working in Australia, Japan and America. Experienced across many industries including manufacturing, oil and gas, forestry, retail and logistics, Sam possesses expert, practic...

Heather Kahle talks with Sharon Todd about her work, her manual handling projects and the tools that she uses. 

As a Human Factors consultant and previous president of the Association of Canadian Ergonomists, Heather helps companies apply human organizational performance/human factors and ergonomics principles and methods. In 30 years with WorkSafeBC, she applies experience with investigations, MSI prevention, and error mitigation a...

Sharon Todd chats to Dr Puji Silva a mechanical and medical engineer about his work and research into litigation injury data. Puji primarily works in ergonomic risk assessments and litigation matters related to permanent injury in both workplace and public liability cases, applying his expertise in biomechanics, human factors, and safety design principles to improve workplace outcomes and legal evaluations.

Dr. Pujitha Silva is a me...

Dr Vanessa Huron discusses the use of drones in various environments and the human factors aspects of drone use. 

Dr Vanessa Huron holds a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Diploma in Innovation Management and a PhD in Microbiology from the University of New South Wales.

Vanessa's research focuses on human factors and safety, accessibility management, and educational design and del...

Sharon Todd chats to Professor Sidney Dekker about his experience in organisational psychology and his thoughts on incidents, blame and forgiveness. 

Sidney takes us on a roller-coaster ride; as he discusses error as a consequence of other factors, encourages us to set others up for success and challenges organisations to choreograph significant change into their responses to failure. 

Sidney Dekker (PhD Ohio State University, USA, 1...

The HFESA president Kath Jones is chatting to Ari Antonovsky about his work on Human factors and 'Human Dependability.'

Dr Antonovsky was originally trained as a Materials Engineer.  Through his role as a Reliability Engineer in the resource industry in Australia, Indonesia and NZ, he became involved in working directly with maintenence and operations crews.  His interest in human factors and the organiastional aspects of ...

Kath Jones our HFESA President, is discussing Organisational Performance, Cognitive Demands, and  Mental Health Maturity Assessment Tools with Stephanie Black. 

Stephanie Black is an experienced programs manager with a diverse cross-disciplinary background. Stephanie is passionate about enhancing organisational performance and human wellbeing amidst the complexities of modern technology and operational demands.

She has succ...

Paul Lambertson and Sharon Todd chat about his experience in Flight Deck design and his use of Systems Theoretical Process Analysis (STPA) (Levenson & Thomas 2018).

Paul Lambertson has been in the aerospace industry for over twenty years and in that time he has had a focus on human to machine interface for the design and operations of flight decks. He has had lead projects on all of Boeings current commercial aircraft ...

Chris Polaczuk and Steve Kolose chat to Sharon Todd about their participative tradie programme.

Musculoskeletal injuries have resulted in significant lost productivity in the New Zealand Construction industry and are especially prevalent in the specialist trades. Despite recent advances in health, safety and technology meaningful interventions to reduce these injuries in construction remain elusive. To compound the issue p...

Professor Catherine Burns talks to SharonTodd (CPE) about her experiences with system design and AI systems in health.

Catherine M. Burns is Professor in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada and Associate Vice President, Health Initiatives at the Office of Research at the University of Waterloo.

In her past administrative roles she has been engaged with institutional and tri agency funding progra...

Sharon Todd is chatting to Adjunct Professor Kate Conroy one of the HFESA's Keynote speakers at our annual  conference in Brisbane this year.

Dr Kate Conroy is a specialist in building trustworthy, ethical, and assured robotics, autonomous systems, and artificial Intelligence (RAS-AI) systems in both military and civilian domains. Dr Conroy works in AI Safety and Assurance Queensland Government and is Responsible AI L...

Kath Jones is chatting to Dr John Chan about Burnout. 

Dr. John Chan is the managing director at Infinite Potential, an independent not-for-profit think tank that develops high-quality, rigorous research, evaluation, and practical solutions to address some of the most pressing workplace problems. An Industrial/Organisational psychologist with 20+ years of global experience designing people strategies to transform how we wo...

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 sy...

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...

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 transfer...

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....

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 a...

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 ...

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 ...