Course description

This ½ day course is run by Professor Helen Higham (Director of OxSTaR & a Consultant Anaesthetist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford) and is suitable for clinical and non-clinical staff and aims to provide an introduction to the fundamentals of human factors in healthcare.

The course introduces participants to basic human factors frameworks, including the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS), and focuses on practical applications in the workplace to improve understanding of systems in healthcare.

This course will align with the new National Patient Safety Syllabus

Learning Objectives
Improve understanding of human factors principles
Introduce and explore a human factors framework (SEIPS)
Provide opportunities to practise applying SEIPS to real world examples

Course content
Definition and background of human factors
Human factors applied to healthcare
Importance of work place culture (including Just Culture tool)
Explanation of SEIPS framework
Exercises using SEIPS
Plenty of opportunity for discussion and questions