Podcast 1 – Working under pressure – Tips from staff working with Covid patients – Interview with Chris Frerk

Podcast 1: “Everything has changed” – Team briefing and pausing before deliberate actionMartin Bromiley OBE discusses simple tools and techniques with Prof Chris Frerk, Anaesthetist currently working in theatres and critical care areas, to help with...

Guidance to help design effective and usable work procedures for health and social care teams

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...

Selecting safe and easier to use products for healthcare using Human Factors specification and checklists

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...

Human Factors Expertise during Covid-19 pandemic

The CIEHF have set up a web page in order to help with Human Factors expertise during the Covid-19 epidemic.If you have expertise in healthcare human factors and would like to offer your help during this critical time, to investigate and solve issues, or to offer...

CIEHF Ventilator infographic

The Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors have created an infographic spec for ventilator manufacture. Download...

Listening to you during Covid 19

Prof. Debbie Rosenorn-Lanng is using a safety II approach to capture successes in human factors/non-technical skills during the Covid emergency. Can we help you to consolidate your learning so that we can pass it on to others through a series of Podcasts. Please email...