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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: Human Factors within practice part 3: Task & patient safety with Jim Walmsley
Description: In this conversation we will examine the fundamentals of human factors within tasks with Jim Walmsley. We will focus on Human factors from a task perspective refer to the ways in which the design of a task or activity can affect the safety and performance of the individuals performing it. We will examine the concept of task complexity, task variability, task duration and demands, feedback mechanisms in place to learn from, clearly defined goals, and finally task design. We will also discuss some of the mitigation factors involved in environmental design, training and skill development, task analysis to error tr...