I ASK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS TWEET TO PLEASE RT IT. Tomorrow nurses strike. They will be put through hell by the media, politicians and the establishment. Ahead of the action please share this tweet if you back the nurses and find it sickening that they are being vilified.

Designers: if your design decisions are justified by the notion that the user will “just” remember something, then please think again, considering context of use. Might be more difficult in times of high workload, stress, if you’re being shot at, have someone bleeding out etc.

Yay! Focus on user experience! In my opinion, it’s the best bit of STEM, but I would say that…

Our latest blog is by Laura pickup, who examines equipment design for healthcare. She asks whether NHS staff should be held accountable for the use of devices and equipment leading to patient safety events. Read it now: hsib.org.uk/news-and-event… #NHS #PatientSafety #HumanFactors

Really interesting findings here…

I'm working with the CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute to make it easier to explore and understand the output of AI systems🔍 If you're a research/data scientist evaluating these systems in industry, please consider joining our (compensated) study: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Awesome to see HF jobs springing up in trusts! #humanfactors #patientsafety

If someone is having a sickle cell crisis, acting fast saves lives. NHS colleagues, this e-learning module will help you spot the signs of a sickle cell crisis and learn how it should be treated. e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/hea…

View our growing collection of short pre-recorded webinars on various #humanfactors concepts and approaches e.g. #FRAM #SEIPS #LinkAnalysis #ResilientHealthCare #BowTieAnalysis #DigitalSafety #InvestigationReportWriting #IndependentDoubleChecks #SA The Q community NHS Education for Scotland (NES)

The Link!! 😅:learn.nes.nhs.scot/60871

🎟️Join us for a free online event to consider the impact of staff fatigue on patient safety and how we manage the risk, online on 17 March 2023. Take a look at the full programme of speakers and register for your place via our website hsib.org.uk/news-and-event… #NHS #PatientSafety

Dear #humanfactorsergonomics people please could you share this job advert and job description with your networks , now open till March 15th . ergonomics.org.uk/resource/human…

It’s international women’s day! I recommend following Gender Pay Gap Bot which picks up tweets from companies talking about how important women are, then posting the pay gap in that organisation. Fascinating.

Are you a Patient Safety Specialist? Interested in joining a panel to support evaluation of #PSIRF? We need PS Specialists to help us explore metrics to assess patient safety following implementation of PSIRF. Workshops will be led by SuzetteWoodward 💙 & Rebecca Lawton 1/3

Took my husband for an MRI scan this morning. Had to have forms filled in for him as he’s partially sighted. Now some parts of the NHS know he’s severely visually impaired… but this knowledge is not shared. And don’t get me started on the car park ticket machines… #humanfactors

Something interesting you might not have realized: a number of words in English are nouns when you stress the first syllable but verbs when you stress the second. "Your CONduct is better when you conDUCT yourself appropriately.”