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Day One: 7th December 2011
8.30
Registration & networking refreshments
9.00
speed networking session
Get to know your peers right from the start in this relaxed and informal speed networking session. Bring your business cards!
9.20
Opening remarks from the Chair
Professor Patrick Murray, Director, Aerospace Strategic Study Centre, Griffith Aviation
Professor Patrick Murray, Director, Aerospace Strategic Study Centre, Griffith Aviation
sAFety risKs – ProbLeMs AnD soLutions
9.30
Opening Keynote Address: Establishing a just culture to ensure a strong safety culture
Professor Sidney Dekker, Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University
Professor Sidney Dekker, Director of the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University
10.00
PaneL Discussion: What are the contributing factors in transport safety incidents? the regulators’ perspectives
Phil Barker, Director Rail Safety Regulation, Department of Transport and Main Roads QLD
Adrian Rowland, Executive Director Transport Safety Improvement, Independent Transport Safety Regulator NSW
The transport industry is constantly striving to better itself in the area of HF management and provide the safest environment possible for its staff, stakeholders and the travelling public. In this session representatives from transport safety regulators across varying transport modes will give a 10 minute insight into the human factor in incidents and disasters they investigate and what lessons can be drawn looking forward. The short presentations will be followed by a Q&A session.
- Identifying trends in human error – What are the risks for transport operators, crews and maintenance workers?
- Learning from past incidents - Using every disaster, accident or incident as a learning experience to prevent future occurrences
- Examining accidents resulting from human error and how they could have been avoided
Phil Barker, Director Rail Safety Regulation, Department of Transport and Main Roads QLD
Adrian Rowland, Executive Director Transport Safety Improvement, Independent Transport Safety Regulator NSW
10.45
Morning tea and networking break
11.05
Employee profiling in safety-orientated roles
Carmen Mackrill, People Services Consultant, Challenge Consulting>
- Is selecting the right people, with the right attitude a critical factor in achieving safety compliance?
- Techniques to improve engagement levels of your workforce
Carmen Mackrill, People Services Consultant, Challenge Consulting>
11.35
Case study: The effects of startle on pilots during critical events in aviation
Wayne Martin, Long Haul Flight Crew NTS Training Manager, Virgin Australia
Wayne Martin, Long Haul Flight Crew NTS Training Manager, Virgin Australia
12.05
The risk of monotony and fatigue
- What are the difficulties of sustaining attention in monotonous work situations and how has it contributed to errors and accidents in the transport sector?
- Understanding the links between monotony and fatigue and hypo vigilance
- Techniques to combat boredom and lack of concentration in monotonous work
- Developing a fatigue resistant workplace culture - Understanding the impact of shift work and roster cycles on your workforce
12.35
Lunch
1.35
Case study: Enhanced understanding of driver training methodologies that support safety and improve the rail industry’s training effectiveness
Dr Anjum Naweed, Research Fellow, CRC for Rail Innovation
- What does a freight train driver do to maintain good form over a difficult route?
- How does a passenger train driver deal with evolving time pressure?
- How can train-driving expertise be effectively captured and delivered in simulator-based training programs to accelerate task competencies?
Dr Anjum Naweed, Research Fellow, CRC for Rail Innovation
oPerAtionAL FoCus on HF – tooLs AnD teCHniQues
2.05
PaneL Discussion: Stories from the coalface - supporting safety culture in everyday operations
Reuben Delamore, Human Factors Advisor, Metro Trains Melbourne
- Hear from those on the frontline about the initiatives undertaken within their organisations to improve safety culture
- Tools and techniques to minimise the risk of human error and maintaining high safety standards in a period of high growth and skills shortage
Reuben Delamore, Human Factors Advisor, Metro Trains Melbourne
CHAnGe AnD sAFety in resourCe-ConstrAineD tiMes
2.50
Human Factors by stealth
Susannah Russell, Safety Improvement and Change Manager, Yarra Trams
- Engaging the unwilling - With the financing of human factors initiatives a major obstacle for safety professionals what techniques can be deployed to integrate human factors into safety management systems without necessarily advertising it as human factors
Susannah Russell, Safety Improvement and Change Manager, Yarra Trams
3.20
Afternoon tea and networking break
3.40
Getting more bang from your buck – Maintaining and improving training programs in times of budgetary constraint
Denise Meyerson, Educational Director, Management Consultancy International
Denise Meyerson, Educational Director, Management Consultancy International
4.10
Five minute thesis
In this session PHD students working in the field of Human Factors in transport will present their leading-edge, results-based research.
4.40
End of conference
