Human Factors and Ergonomics in Practice

by Steven Shorrock (Editor), Claire Williams (Editor)

This edited book concerns the real practice of human factors and ergonomics (HF/E), conveying the perspectives and experiences of practitioners and other stakeholders in a variety of industrial sectors, organisational settings and working contexts. The book blends literature on the nature of practice with diverse and eclectic reflections from experience in a range of contexts, from healthcare to agriculture. It explores what helps and what hinders the achievement of the core goals of HF/E: improved system performance and human wellbeing. The book should be of interest to current HF/E practitioners, future HF/E practitioners, allied practitioners, HF/E advocates and ambassadors, researchers, policy makers and regulators, and clients of HF/E services and products.

Review
"I liked this book. It fits well with much of my experience and earlier work for IEA on university EHF courses and on professional EHF competencies - I was chair of the IEA executive committee for ergonomics education and professional certification. It also contains some very useful insights that I can use for my undergraduate and postgraduate courses (example: comments about professional aspects of EHF, definitions and history of EFH). The chapters on specific industries will also be very useful introductions for some of my EHF research students. I would definitely use the book as a prescribed text for my 128.804 course: Ergonomics professional practice."
― Stephen Legg, Massey University, New Zealand

About the Author
Steven Shorrock is a chartered ergonomist and human factors specialist, and a chartered psychologist, with a background in internal and external consultancy in human factors and safety management in several industries, government, and as a researcher and educator in academia. He holds a BSc in applied psychology, an MSc (Eng) in work design and ergonomics, and a PhD in human factors in air traffic control. Steven is currently a safety and human factors specialist and European safety culture program leader at EUROCONTROL where he works in countries throughout Europe, and an adjunct senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, School of Aviation, Sydney, Australia.

Claire Williams is a chartered ergonomist and human factors specialist (C.ErgHF) providing advice and training in risk management to a wide range of industrial and government organizations. She holds a BSc in biological sciences, an MSc in ergonomics, and a PhD in ergonomics expertise. She is a senior human factors/ergonomics consultant at Human Applications and a visiting research fellow in human factors and behavior change at Derby University, Derby, United Kingdom.