by admin | May 17, 2020 | All Resources, COVID-19, How To Guides, Human Factors & Ergonomics, Tools & Methods
Key Human Factors messages when working under pressure Over the last few days we’ve been listening to frontline staff in the UK and abroad to assess how we might support people through the current emergency. We have already connected clinicians with human factors...
by admin | May 11, 2020 | COVID-19, How To Guides
The purpose of this document is to provide health and social care teams with much-needed advice and guidance on the human-centred design of work procedures such as written instructions, checklists or flow charts during this period of “crisis management” in response to...
by admin | Apr 28, 2020 | How To Guides, Human Factors & Ergonomics, Tools & Methods, Uncategorized
This Guide is to help staff working in procurement or with medical devices and equipment, to use Human Factors to specify and select the best and safest products to use in healthcare. This is important because conformity with Regulations and Standards does not always...
by admin | Oct 23, 2019 | How To Guides, Human Factors & Ergonomics
Health Education England have produced a toolkit on Human Factors in Healthcare looking at example of training, simulation and speaking up. Download...
by admin | Jul 16, 2019 | All Resources, CHFG Video, How To Guides, Human Factors & Ergonomics, Human Factors Perspectives Video Series
John Pickles, Clinical Human Factors Trustee shares his experience of persuading the Board to invest in using Human Factors techniques. Further reading Getting to Grips with Boards Board Resource Safe SBAR checklist WHO Safer Surgery...
by admin | Jan 30, 2017 | How To Guides, Primary & Social Care, Secondary Care, Tools & Methods
How does a consultant confirm all the initial steps in management have been completed? How does the doctor new to the emergency department learn how to deal with a condition they have never managed before? How does the team confirm all the safety critical points for a...