Is it Always the Human Factor?

Hospital Transfusion Special Interest Group


Day: Wednesday  |   Time: 15:00 - 16:30  |  Room: Queens Suite 1

Session Coordinators: 
Angela Green


Presentations: 

Human Factors in Error and Accident Reduction 
Professor James Storr

Presentation Unavailable

The use and abuse of laboratory equipment - the
human factor

Miss Julie Staves, Oxford University Hospital

Presentation Unavailable

A night time with Teddy
Mrs Liz Brown, William Harvey Hospital Ashford Kent

Presentation Unavailable


Intended Audience
Laboratory BMS staff, nursing staff, medical staff and transfusion practitioners

Learning Objectives
1) What human factors are and how they are influential in incidents. 

2) Importance of transfer of information to avoid misunderstandings. 

3) Awareness on how human factors play a role in situation awareness and decision making

Brief Description
An over view of human factors and how the learning from human factors can help accident avoidance.  How human factors play are part in both clinical and laboratory incidents.

Session Tags
TBC