Human Factors experts are important in many types of legal cases. Ranging from determining causes of occupational accidents through to cases about human behaviour in complex socio-technical systems.
Our expertise in psychology, physiology, biomechanics, sociology and human behaviour can be applied to determine liability for a wide range of legal cases.
Human Factors is concerned with identifying the true casual factors of cases related to human physical, psychological, social and behavioural strengths and limitations. Ergonomie’s consultants provide Human Factors expertise to a wide range of legal cases in the areas of:
Transportation systems – accidents and incidents related to product, process, environment and system design in the air, rail, maritime and road transport systems
Occupational accidents – determining casual factors to workplace accidents related to equipment, processes, systems, and organisational culture
Product design – understanding liability of product related injuries or failures associated with poor design
Healthcare system – understanding casual factors of healthcare accidents related to workload, communication, human error associated with product, environment and systems used in healthcare
Criminal law – understanding human behaviour in the criminal cases related to the collection of police evidence, human behaviour and law, witness recall and reliability
Complex socio-technical systems – adopting a systems ergonomics approach to understand casual factors in these complex systems
Transportation systems
Construction industry
Product liability
Criminal cases
Complex socio-technical system cases
Occupational accidents
Slips, trips & falls
Workplace safety
Training, instructions & competency
Human Error
Risk perception
Environmental factors – lighting & noise levels
Human behaviour in complex systems
Attention & distraction
Human perception, vision & hearing
Memory & knowledge
Conspicuity – signage, people, displays etc
Control & display design
Alarm system design
Product design
Process and procedure design
Fatigue
Workload
Communication system design
