Role of human factors in improving the workplace
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Role of human factors in improving the workplace

Phil Gurnett Nurse and human factors and simulation training officer, Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust

Human factors and ergonomics can improve nurses’ workplaces and create safer, streamlined services

In the UK, human factors and ergonomics are interchangeable terms. Both look at the way humans interact with each other and the systems and processes in which we live and work.

Nursing Management. 28, 3, 18-19. doi: 10.7748/nm.28.3.18.s12

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