ESRC FREE SEMINAR Human factors and best practice: Cross-fertilisation in research and industry
Wednesday 5th August 2015 – Ljubljana, Slovenia
The fifth seminar aims to examine the theoretical underpinnings of human factors analysis and its research application to the marine, financial services, healthcare and aviation industries.
The seminar will be held at the University of Ljubljana in the beautiful country of Slovenia. It brings together stimulating perspectives from leading academics and practititoners in these disciplines to share their knowledge and learn from each other.
SPEAKERS
Dr Tita Alissa Listyowardojo – Tita is a Senior Researcher in DNV GL Strategic Research and Innovation, Healthcare Programme, Norway. She is Project Manager for the long term project “Safety Culture for Patient Safety” which focuses on developing, testing, and advocating mixed methods assessment to assess safety culture in healthcare. Her other work and interests include integrated care, co-creation of a safer healthcare, healthcare risk management, and Human Factors in healthcare.
Tita will be looking at how healthcare staff interact and carry out their tasks can influence the safety of patients i.e. “safety culture” based on her paper ‘Improving the way safety culture is assessed in healthcare to manage people risk’. The discussion will address the following key topics within healthcare: Why safety culture matters for patient safety? How to operationalize safety culture into assessment? How to use safety culture assessment results as a basis for improvement?
Meghan Leaver – Meghan is a doctoral researcher at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on developing new methodology to extract and explore human factors in complex and risky organisations, specifically factors found to be influential in the financial trading domain. Her research interests include; decision making, human error, cognition, perspective taking and teamwork.
Meghan will be discussing her paper ‘Non-technical skills for managing risk and performance in financial trading’ which considers the influence of human factors on financial trading based on the outcomes of a major literature review and also identifies potential areas for future research.
Dr Sam Cromie – Sam is Assistant Professor of Organisational Psychology and Assistant Director of the Centre for Innovative Human Systems in Trinity College Dublin. He has over twenty years’ experience of action research into human and organisational factors in aviation, process, manufacturing, pharma, rail, maritime and healthcare sectors. Particular research interests are: risk management of human factors, the impact of human factors training, the role of procedures in managing performance, safety and just culture.
Sam will be discussing his paper ‘Managing Risk when Humans are at large in the System’ which explores error probability and the ways in which people often alter the risk landscape in operational systems in quite distinctive ways.
Professor Kjell Øvergård – Kjell is Professor and Head of Research at the Department of Maritime Technology and Innovation at Buskerud and Vestfold University College. He has been involved in multidisciplinary research on diverse topics as high-speed craft navigation in coastal waters, maritime simulator training, critical care medicine, interface design, ergonomics, as well as distributed situation awareness and decision-making in critical incidents. His current research interest involves how humans can maintain control during operations of complex socio-technical transport systems and the modeling of the dynamic and time-dependent relationship between work performance and performance-shaping factors.
Kjell will be discussing his paper ‘Human involvement in critical situations and near-misses in the maritime and offshore industries’ which looks at complex socio-technical systems and is based on results from two research projects on human involvement in near misses and recoveries from critical incidents in the maritime industry. The talk will give a basis for answering the following questions: How are humans aware of what is going on and how they make decisions during the emergence of abnormal situations? How do people act when observing that something is wrong? What are the main contributing factors to critical incidents? Is strict adherence to predefined procedures a necessity in successful recoveries?
After the speakers have presented their papers there will be a roundtable questions and answers session where the themes and issues of the day’s presentations can be fully discussed.
Venue: Faculty of Economics University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva pl. 17, 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia, Senate Conference Room
Date: Wednesday 5th August 2015
Time: 10:00 – 15:00
Attendance is FREE but the seminar is strictly limited to 30 delegates so please book early. We have a limited number of small travel bursaries available for attendees and a few bursaries to cover travel expenses for PhD students. Please indicate if you want to be considered for a bursary when you register by e-mailing Dr Cormac Bryce at cormac.bryce@nottingham.ac.uk
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