Barry Kirby & his experience in HFE Design and Development in the UK

Sharon Todd chats to Steph Cassidy about a Psychosocial Risk Management Project that was successfully rolled out with a bus company. The project is called Healthy Minds Work.

Steph's passion lies in assisting Australian workplaces to maintain their maximum productivity. Steph, an Occupational Therapist and Ergonomist has 30 years of experience in managing and preventing work-related injury or illness. It is this, combined with her own executive-level management experience, that adds strength to her ability to guide organisations on workforce management strategies that align with operations, finance and human resources. 

In 2012, Steph founded Productivity Matters, a business focused on helping to create productive, healthy and safe places to work. 

Specialties: Health, Safety and Wellbeing Strategy and Ergonomics (User Centred Design).

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Sharon Todd's special guest is Barry Kirby the current President of the  CIEHF.  He is  a Chartered Ergonomist and Human Factors Practitioner (C.ErgHF), Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Fellow of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (FIEHF) and a Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET).

Barry has over 17 years’ experience working as a Human Factors Consultant, with skills in user engagement, product design and specification, simulation, trials as well as business and strategy development. As the Managing Director of K Sharp, Barry leads a small but perfectly formed team of researchers and consultants with a wide range of skills and knowledge.

He has a keen interest in the attitudes, trust and behaviour of users when faced with new technology such as Smart Cities, Smart Communities and the Internet of Things.

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Sharon Todd's guests are Dr Jon Spiro and Anthony Lock, founders of the Nexus Human Factors Training in Healthcare in WA.

The views expressed by Dr Jon Spiro and Anthony Lock within this HFESA Podcast are their own and not those of any organisation they work for or with.

Dr Jon Spiro is a consultant cardiologist and Senior clinical lecturer at the University of Western Australia. Having trained in the UK, Jon took up his current fulltime public position as a consultant interventional cardiologist at Royal Perth Hospital in 2015. During his medical training Jon built up a special interest in leadership, teamwork and human performance within healthcare groups and non-healthcare organisations.

In 2016 Jon partnered with Anthony Lock to establish the NEXUS course. Using lessons learned from other high-reliability and high-performing industries Jon wanted to improve the awareness and availability of human factors (or non-technical skills) training to healthcare staff.

Jon continues to drive change and innovation at RPH, establishing WA’s first rapid access chest pain service and comprehensive coronary physiology program. Jon is a past director of the cardiac catheter labs, contributes to the hospital’s complex PCI program and co-leads the cath lab’s cardiogenic shock team.

 Anthony Lock, DSM 

With over 7000 flying hours on high-performance military aircraft and working with Special Forces Teams worldwide, Anthony has extensive experience in developing high-performing teams and leaders in high-stress environments. 

In 2017, Anthony transferred his expertise to Healthcare and was appointed the Director of Patient Safety and Human Performance at Royal Perth and Bentley Hospitals and, more recently, the Executive Director of Clinical Performance and systems at St John Ambulance, WA. He has led widespread organisational change and the development of Australia’s first hospital-wide, industry-based Human Factors training course called NEXUS. 

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Professor Jodi Oakman chats to Sharon Todd about the APHIRM  (A Participative Hazard Identification and Risk Management) Toolkit.  An online platform designed to support organisations in reducing stress related mental health and musculoskeletal disorders through using a participative approach.  www.aphirm.org.au

Professor Jodi Oakman leads the Centre for Ergonomics and Human Factors at La Trobe University in Victoria Australia. She is an ergonomist and human factors specialist and worked in a range of industry settings before moving into academia. 

Her research program is focussed on working with organisations to optimise employees’ physical and mental health. She led the development of the APHIRMToolkit and online platform designed to support organisations in reducing stress related mental health and musculoskeletal disorders through using a participative approach. 

She currently leads projects in the areas of working at home and hybrid work and using systems thinking approaches to improve work related health. She recently led a longitudinal study examining the influence of working from home on employee health and well being.

 Professor Jodi Oakman Doctor of Philosophy (La Trobe University); MSc & Tech in Ergonomics (UNSW); B.App.Sci (Physiotherapy) La Trobe University; Grad Cert in Higher Ed and Teaching; Grad Cert in Implementation Science (UCSF).

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Sharon Todd chats to Tarryn Ryan about HFE skills and training for Helicopter pilots. In this episode we chat about human factors and helicopter flying, including situational awareness, dark hole effect, night flying, decision making, and resilience. Tarryn is a Director at Safety Collaboration Pty Ltd. She has over 20 years of experience in aviation, including as a helicopter pilot in the South African Air Force, the Australian Army, and the civilian sector, where she performed helicopter emergency medical service and marine pilot transfer operations.

She holds an Australian Commercial Pilots License (CPL-H) and is completing her Master's degree in Aviation specialising in Human Factors, a field that she is passionate about. She is also a certified Crew Resource Management Trainer and delivers tailor-made Human Factors training to organisations across various industries. Her mission is to enhance the safety, performance, and wellbeing of individuals and teams through evidence-based and practical solutions.

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Karl Rich CPE and Sharon Todd CPE are discussing HF Integration  and the Parramatta Light Rail project in Sydney Australia. The methods and tools used to populate the HFE risk register, the use of first principals,  mock ups, virtual reality, anthropometry, simulation and the usability studies in this project are discussed.

Karl Rich has 30 years’ international experience in the provision of consultancy in Human Factors and training to a wide range of safety critical Industries, including rail, oil and gas, marine, process control, medical products, aerospace and defence. 

He has worked in human factors consultancy for 25 years, prior to which he was Head of Human Factors at the Institute of Naval Medicine, UK Ministry of Defence. 
In the UK, European, Chinese, and Australian rail sectors, Karl has worked extensively on both the supply-side and the operator-side of projects as a consultant, Human Factors Delivery Manager, Project Manager and Human Factors Integrator. 

He has worked  in the rail sector on all types of assets in both operational and design engineering domains and is well used to working in, and leading, multi-disciplinary teams. His deep cross-industry experience in human factors integration enables him to quickly get up to speed on any projects where HF and safety are a critical focus. 

Since arriving in Australia in 2017, Karl’s numerous projects have included major infrastructure projects, such as Sydney Trains’ Electrical Isolations Improvement Program (EIIP), the Parramatta Light Rail project, the Melbourne Tunnel Project, Evolution Rail, Country Rail Network control room builds and train control system design, Canberra Light Rail extension, and several major tunnel projects in NSW and VIC. 

Karl is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors, and a Certified Professional Ergonomist, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia. 

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Professor Jillian Dorrian discusses shiftwork, fatigue and performance with Sharon Todd (CPE). Jill is one of the keynote speakers at the HFESA Conference 19-22nd November 2023.   

Jill is Professor in Psychology, with a PhD in sleep and chronobiology research, and a Master of Biostatistics. 

From the beginning of my PhD, Jill conducted laboratory and field studies with a consistent focus on collaboration and translation. Her PhD and early post-doctoral work was supported by the Australian Shiftwork and Workload Consortium, a 10-year collaboration with Australian Rail Industry operators and safety regulators. This work informed fatigue risk management (the over-arching term to describe risks relating to sleep loss and performance impairment in industry) in rail.

Jill has continued to conduct in-workplace studies for rail, emergency services, and health. More recently, she has also worked with mining, construction, ports, and forestry, providing research and education to promote fatigue management.

Jill is heavily involved with research student supervision, and training in publishing and other forms of research communication. She was recognised by the Australian Graduate Research Council for excellence in graduate research supervision.

Much of her current work is focused on behavioural coping strategies for remaining healthy despite exposure to sleep loss. In particular, along with colleagues in psychology, nutrition, and activity, we study chronobehaviour – investigating the health impacts, not only of what we do, but when we do it.

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Sharon Todd is discussing HFE in Work System Design with one of our keynote speakers Dr. Patrick Neumann speaking at the  HFESA Conference November 2023.

Dr. W. Patrick Neumann.Lic.Eng., LEL, Eur.Erg. is a Design Scientist, a certified human factors professional and he heads the Human Factors Engineering Lab in Toronto Metropolitan University’s Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, where he is Full Professor.  

He has published over 270 conference and scientific journal publications in the area of human factors in work system design with the intent of achieving sustainably superior workplaces that provide outstanding system quality and performance.  

Dr. Neumann’s work has been recognized internationally with “Best paper” awards in the biomedical, industrial engineering, and ergonomics literatures.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-neumann-6154777/?originalSubdomain=ca

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Dr. Christopher Reid is a Technical Fellow and Boeing Designated Expert in both the Human Factors & Ergonomics discipline and wearable technology. Based out of Charleston, South Carolina, USA, he is the current Technology Architect for Boeing's Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) organization. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Practice at Clemson University’s Department of Industrial Engineering. Prior to Boeing, Dr. Reid worked for Lockheed Martin on astronaut spacesuit assessment as a Human Factors & Ergonomics Discipline Lead at NASA Johnson Space Center and as a Human Factors Engineer for the US Army Natick Labs, assessing Warfighter personal protective equipment. He is a Fellow of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society and a Past President (2021-2022), is a member of ASTM International’s Board of Directors and Chair of the ASTM F48.02 Subcommittee on Human Factors & Ergonomics for Exoskeletons and Exosuits. He’s also an advisor on the National Safety Council’s Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSD) Solutions Lab Advisory Council and Delegates Committee.

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Mike Nendick and Paul Cummins talk about Non Technical Skills with Sharon Todd. What is NTS?  Why it is used? What is threat and error management? 
This podcast was recorded in a 737-800 simulator. 
Mike is Human Factors and Organisational Psychologist. He works as a senior human factors, systems safety, and risk specialist, a work, health and safety management professional; and leader with broad experience across multiple safety critical domains including aviation, rail, construction, roads, maritime, energy, and the military.

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