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Martin Anderson
Chartered Human Factors Professional
C.ErgHF, FCIEHF, CMIOSH, EurErg, MSc(Eng), MSc(Eng), BSc(Hons)

Martin has over 28 years experience of applying human and organisational factors in high-hazard industries and complex systems.

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What is ‘human factors’? provides a short introduction to this subject.

Why ‘101’ explains the rationale behind this website.

As you might expect, the Frequently Asked Questions page answers some of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about human factors and ergonomics.

If you know what you’re looking for, see the A-Z of human factors topics.

More information about the author of this website can be found on the page About Martin Anderson

 

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Key topics

  • Alarm management
  • Behavioural safety
  • Communications
  • Competence
  • Designing for users
  • Fatigue
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human factors in investigations
  • Human reliability
  • Non-Technical Skills (“Crew Resource Management”)
  • Organisational change
  • Procedures
  • Safety culture
  • Safety leadership
  • Situation awareness: Making sense of the world
  • Staffing levels & Workload
  • Supervision
  • The “Intelligent Customer”

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