Our experience

Ergonomie consultants have experience in the application of Human Factors principles to many projects within the energy, utilities, mining and telecommunications sectors.

We have applied our knowledge of Human Factors to the design of high voltage transmission control rooms, with the aim of identifying and improving the way operators communicate with remote teams and co-ordinate incident responses. In addition, we have worked with gas and electricity providers to ensure that their coordination teams are appropriately supported by the systems they interact with.

Our knowledge and understanding of Human Factors and Ergonomics has been applied to the design of hazardous manual task mining equipment and telecommunications equipment.

We apply our knowledge and experience to evaluate products, systems, projects and people.

Clear information and communication is critical to maintaining safety and effective performance in high risk, high consequence industries, such as energy, utilities, mining and telecommunications.

Areas of work include:

• Human Factors assurance for major projects in oil & gas, mining and electricity sectors

• Process industry alert and alarms design and assessment

• Workload analysis and job design, including task requirements and supervision

• Ergonomics reviews for hazardous manual tasks and equipment

• Communications and decision-making training

• Incident investigation and analysis

• Human Reliability Assessments

• Human Factors input to Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP)

• Virtual Reality for high-risk environment training and assessment

• Design of operational facilities – control rooms, maintenance centres, support centres

• Product design, including displays, interfaces and controls

• Evaluation & design of work environments

• Organisational factors, including policies and procedures

• Stakeholder management

• Contextual inquiries