Human Factors & Ergonomics (HFE) Hub

Kath Jones the current HFESA President chats to Justine McGillivray an Organisational Psychologist and human factors specialist with extensive experience in workplace health and safety and regulation. Justine is currently the Principal Inspector – Human Factors at WorkSafe Petroleum Safety and Dangerous Goods, where she leads the Human Factors Capability Strategy, strengthening regulatory practice through evidence-based approaches to the risk management of major accident events.
 Justine is a co-founder and former National President of the Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology Australia (SIOPA), where she played a key role in advancing the profession nationally and fostering strong links between research, practice, and policy. She brings deep expertise in psychosocial risk, organisational systems, and incident analysis, with a strong focus on improving outcomes for workers and organisations.
 Across her career, Justine has worked at the intersection of psychology, regulation, and leadership, contributing to the development of practical, systems-focused approaches to safety and performance. She is widely recognised for her strategic leadership, technical credibility, and commitment to building capability in human factors and organisational psychology.
The link to access information sheets is here Human factors: Information sheets - WorkSafe – LGIRS, this incudes links to the Integrating human factors into major accident event investigations worksheet discussed as well as Safety critical communication worksheet.
 
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Professor Melissa Baysari is chatting with Professor Tarcisio Saurin a Full Professor in the Industrial Engineering Department at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering, and has been a visiting professor at Griffith University, Macquarie University, and the University of Salford. His main research interests include resilience engineering, work system design, safety management, and lean production. He has conducted research and consulting projects on these topics in healthcare, construction, electricity distribution, aviation, and manufacturing. He also serves as an associate editor of the Safety Science journal, and as a member of the executive committee of the Resilient Health Care Society. Since 2019, he has been listed annually among the top 2% most cited authors in human factors and ergonomics. He is the recipient of the 2025 International Ergonomics Association/Elsevier John Wilson Triennial Award for contributions to complexity management and designing for resilient performance.
Professor Tarcisio Saurin is one of the keynote speakers for the HFESA annual conference this year in Sydney. https://www.ergonomics.org.au

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William S. Marras, Ph.D., CPE chats to Sharon Todd about his reseach into back injuries and muscle co-activation.
William S. Marras Ph.D., CPE is the Distinguished University Professor and holds the Honda Endowed Chair in Integrated Systems Engineering, at the Ohio State University. He serves as the Director of the Spine Research Institute at the Ohio State University where he leads NIH, NSF, DoD, Ohio BWC and privately funded research eGorts. Dr. Marras also holds joint academic appointments in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, the Department of Neurosurgery, and the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
His research is focused on understanding multidimensional causal pathways for spine disorders through quantitative epidemiologic evaluations, laboratory biomechanical studies, personalized mathematical modeling, and clinical studies of the lumbar and cervical spines. His findings have been published in over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, hundreds of refereed proceedings, and numerous books and book chapters including a book entitled The Working Back: A Systems View. Professor Marras has been active in the National Research Council (NRC) having served on over a dozen boards and committees and has served as Chair of the Board on Human Systems Integration for multiple terms. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of Human Factors is currently Deputy Editor of Spine and has served as the President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. Dr. Marras holds Fellow status in six professional societies and is an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering (the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine), recorded a TEDx talk entitled “Back Pain and your Brain” and has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.
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Sharon Todd (CPE) is discussing "Driver Distraction" with Emeritus Professor Michael (Mike) Regan.
Emeritus Professor Michael (Mike) Regan, is an Emeritus Professor with the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI) at the University of UNSW, Sydney. Prior to that he was Professor of Human Factors at rCITI, and before that Chief Scientist-Human Factors at the Australian Road Research Board.  
Mike has BSc (Hons) and PhD degrees in Psychology and Human Factors from the Australian National University and nearly 30 years’ experience in transport human factors and road safety research - in Australia, Europe and the US. 
His key research interests include driver distraction and inattention, road user behaviour, human factors in road design and traffic engineering, vehicle human-machine interface design, and human interaction with intelligent transport systems. He is the author/co-author of around 200 peer-reviewed research documents, including 5 books, two of which are on driver distraction and inattention. 
Mike has done much to help society, globally, to prevent and mitigate the effects of driver distraction: through his research; his contributions to international committees; his advice to governments and industry; as an expert witness in courts; and in the recent provision of technical input into the development of Australia’s new technology-neutral road rules for driver distraction and Australia’s National Driver Distraction Roadmap. 
 Mike is the co-founder and co-organiser of the biennial International Conference on Driver Distraction and Inattention, to be held this year for the 10th time in Gothenburg, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Road Safety and a long-standing Member (and 25th President) of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia. 
 
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David Caple is discussing human factors with Professor Carayon. Professor Carayon's  research belongs to the discipline of human factors engineering, in particular macroergonomics. Her scholarly contributions aimed at modeling, assessing and improving work systems (i.e. the system of tasks performed by individuals using various technologies in a physical and organizational environment) to improve system performance, safety and worker well-being. Her research has been funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes for Health, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the Department of Defense, various foundations and private industry. 
Professor Carayon is an outstanding scholar. She has published 203 scientific journal articles, 5 books, 253 conference papers and 30 technical reports, and was the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Ergonomics, a top journal in human factors and ergonomics. She is the editor of the Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety, and the author of the book on Human-Centered Design for Health Care Safety.
Professor Carayon developed the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) research program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to tackle the societal problem of patient safety. 
Research expertise include:
Human Factors and Systems Engineering in Health Care and Patient Safety
Human Factors and Ergonomics; Occupational Safety and Health; Macroergonomics; Job and Organizational Design
Sociotechnical System Design and Change; Human-Centered Design.
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