A Day In The Life of a Human Factors

Consultant

Fay Djemil

Human Factors Consultant

Lloyd’s Register Consulting, London

IEHF Careers Conference

20 November 2013

Outline

– My background

– The job search and why consultancy?

– Core HF skills

– Why Lloyds Register (LR) Consultancy?

– Day in the life of a HF Consultant

– Career development

– Q&As

My background…

The job search and why consultancy?

Which HF

route?

In-house

PhD

Research

Consultancy

The HF job

hunt

University careers office

Networking from

conferences

Social Medial- LinkedIn

The Ergonomist magazine

Why Lloyds Register (LR) Consultancy?

Why I choose LR initially…

• Longstanding (250yrs), reputable and charitable company

• Market leader in risk management, safety and HF

consultancy services

• Continuous range of work opportunities and qualifications

• Prospects of working across safety industries around the

world, from UK, Canada, USA, HK, Australia,

Scandinavia…

• Opportunity to complete IEHF log and gain registration

Why I would still choose LR…

• Good corporate work/ life balance in the city of London

• Work within a group of SMEs, specialists and even a noble peace prize winner

• Continual support to grow and develop within HF technical expertise, business and people skills

• To learn and advance in technical fields with support from experienced peers

Core skills acquired so far…

• Verification and Validation analysis methods

• Regulatory and standards compliance

• Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA)

• Working environment

• Workstation and control room design

• Human factors integration

• Cognitive ergonomics

• Qualitative human error analysis

• Experienced in the use of accident/incident transport

reporting systems

Day in the life of a HF Consultant

Project Management/

Proposals

Workshops/ Site visits

Design Work Report writing

Conferences

Every day is different

Project examples: 1

Colour differentiation usability study for insulin injection devices, USA.

• Assess the colour differentiation of a number of potential colour variants for an insulin injection device through:

– Usability trials and a marketing study in the U.S.A to support the development of new colour options of the target market.

• Recommendations presented from this study have contributed towards the client’s selection of the most suitable colours for their product in order to:

– reduce pen selection error

– facilitate patient use

– decide how to devise the most efficient and successful marketing strategy to promote each pen.

Project examples: 2

Crisis Intervention and Operability Analysis (CRIOP) (NORSOK S-002), Singapore

• Supported verification and validation (V/V) of control suite design

• Using six checklists, control rooms were assessed against the following areas:

– Layout

– Working Environment

– Control and safety systems

– Job organisation

– Procedures and work documents

– Training and competence.

• Our V/V ensures that operators can perform their work tasks safely and efficiently throughout all modes of operation within the Flotel.

Career development

Technical competence

• Risk, HF and safety Assessment methodologies

• Safety critical sectors

Secondment opportunities

• Globally

• Across industries

• Enhances expertise

Project Management

• Proposals- BD

• Manage personnel

• Becoming expert

Qualifications

• IEHF log and registration

• Lloyds Register Educational Trust

For more information, please contact:

Fay Djemil

Human Factors Consultant

Lloyd’s Register Consulting

T +44 (0) 207 423 2145

E fay.djemil@lr.org

W www.lr.org/consulting

W www.riskspectrum.com

Lloyd's Register and Lloyd’s Register Consulting are trading

names of the Lloyd's Register Group Limited and its

subsidiaries.

For further details please see our web site www.lr.org/entities

Thank you…

Any questions?