HFESNZ Conference 2019 The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society hosted their annual symposium and conference this year over 3 days in Auckland. The conference included presentations from a range of experts in the human factors field, with Maggie’s presentation helping to kick-off the third day. Maggie’s presentation on using work domain analysis in safety case development was awarded best abstract, for..

Everyone was confident that ABS would make a big difference to the risk of nose-to-tail car collisions.   How wrong we were! I was initially astounded when the statistics were reported years ago: no difference in nose-to-tail crash rates. Why? “Risk compensation” the researchers said. It turns out that drivers of cars fitted with ABS were more confident of their..