Human factors and ergonomics analysis

The behaviour of personnel using or operating systems has important consequences for the safe and reliable operation of railways. Lloyd's Register Rail specialises in the application of human factors principles and techniques in the rail environment.

How we can help

• Job design
• Occupational health and safety
• Creation of structured training plans
• Presentation of tailored training courses
• Human error analysis, human reliability and risk assessment
• Training needs analysis
• Human factors input to product design
• Control rooms - assessment of design and layout
• Decision support systems design - HMI/HCI and others
• Workstation design - anthropometric and ergonomics studies
• Cognitive ergonomics and organisation development
• Workload analysis, task analysis and hierarchical task analysis.

What are the benefits?

• User-friendly products and systems, resulting in:
  - Increased productivity and enhanced quality of work
  - Lower training needs and costs
  - Reduced support costs
  - Enhanced client satisfaction.
  
• Reduced business and project risks due to redesign and rework arising from human interface problems
• Better health and safety risk management.

Projects

• Workload assessments for new train cabs (Class 220 and Class 221)
• Human factors support for developing design requirements for railway infrastructure, communications and rolling stock projects
• Human factors assessments and input to resignalling safety cases
• Task analysis of signallers and line controllers for underground and heavy rail companies
• Training for clients in human factors awareness and integration.

What next?

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