Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health and Social Care

An Applied Approach

Mark Sujan author Laura Pickup author Helen Vosper author Ken Catchpole author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Class Publishing Ltd

Publishing:29th Apr '25

£39.99

This title is due to be published on 29th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health and Social Care cover

 

Patient safety, patient and family experience, and staff wellbeing are the joint responsibility of anyone working within health and social care.  An understanding of how Humans Factors and Ergonomics can improve our interactions with systems and processes can often lead to improved patient and staff outcomes.

If you are responsible for implementing Human Factors and Ergonomics programmes within a health and social care setting – or if you just want to understand more about how the principles of human factors might apply to your role – this practical introduction will help you navigate your way around Human Factors and Ergonomics approaches within the healthcare setting.

Key features include:

  • Aligned to the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors professional competencies, this book shows how these can be framed within real-life practice.
  • Packed with case studies and helpful tips you can use in your day-to-day practice.
  • Clear structure showing the different levels of a system with specific chapters on organisation, people, equipment and environment.
  • Fully illustrated to facilitate your learning

 

In this first-of-a-kind book, four authors with solid pedigrees in practice and research in the field have come together to help explain what human factors and ergonomics (HF/E) is and how to do it. The book covers the key topics that comprise HF/E in practice, supporting the Healthcare Learning Pathway of the Chartered Institute of
Ergonomics and Human Factors, and building in the professional competencies for practitioners. The result is a practical and readable book that will help readers upskill to membership of the CIEHF, so that they can help integrate HF/E in practice in their own organisation to help improve system performance and human well-being. 

-- Steven Shorrock, co-editor of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Practice, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia

This great ‘how-to’ book is an excellent reference for patient safety leaders and clinicians interested in applying human factors principles in their operational safety work. It is also valuable for human factors professionals working in the healthcare domain. The structure of the book makes it easy to use with chapters covering the
basic concepts of safety, which are all made operationally relevant and applied to practice.

-- Rollin J. ‘Terry’ Fairbanks, Senior Vice President, Chief Quality and Safety Officer, MedStar Health

At last, a book about Human Factors & Ergonomics (HF/E) in healthcare written by chartered professionals who are highly experienced in related research, education, and practice and have a particular focus on patient safety. This fantastic offering makes a huge contribution to outlining both foundational and more advanced HF/E principles, concepts and methods that healthcare leaders, practitioners, educators, scientists, risk, safety and improvement advisors and many others can readily apply. Importantly, this timely contribution lays all of this out in a very readable and accessible fashion, with the welcome bonus that it provides much-needed practical guidance on the purpose and approach of HF/E which is sometimes misunderstood in healthcare. This is a must-read for everyone with a strong interest in improving organisational performance and the wellbeing of people who work in, and use, healthcare services.

-- Paul Bowie, Programme Director (Safety & Improvement), NHS Education for Scot

ISBN: 9781801610933

Dimensions: 245mm x 170mm x 12mm

Weight: unknown

204 pages