Human Factors Integration Training
Course overview
The HFI programme builds on RSSB’s original Human Factors Awareness (HFA) course, moving beyond theory to hands-on practice. As industry priorities have evolved, so has our approach—ensuring the content reflects contemporary best practice and stakeholder expectations.
Course benefits are:
- Turning human factors insight into action, with practical exercises and proven frameworks
- Reducing operational risk and improve performance by designing for real people and real situations
- Creating a shared language across engineering, operations, safety, and assurance teams
- Ready-to-use tools to take away for immediate application
- Transferable skills that make a measurable impact in your workplace.
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Learning outcomes
- Understand what human factors are and why they are important
- Identify the 10 incident factors
- Define systems thinking and its role in safety
- Recognise how organisations learn and how that learning can be improved
- Describe features of complex system
- Explain where fatigue risk sits and how it can be mapped and influenced
- Demonstrate the key principles and benefits of human-centred design
- Apply the human-centred design process
- Create Human Factor Integration plans
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Who should attend?
Safety managers, operations managers, safety advisors and safety specialists, hazard analysts, regulators, inspectors, learning and development teams, and human factors advisors. It’s also relevant to those whose role includes investigating accidents and incidents.
Prices
RSSB member and affiliate: £770 (£924 including 20% UK VAT)
RSSB non-member: £1,540 (£1,848 including 20% UK VAT).
Course dates and booking
Face-to-face delivery
Learning hours: 09:00–17:00 over 2 days
Course dates:
- 23 - 24 June 2026 [London]
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Book your place
Our Quick Start Guide for Delegates explains how you can register on the Learning Platform and book your place.
Contact for enquiries:
Call: 020 3142 5418
Email: training@rssb.co.uk
Trainers’ profiles
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Anna Vereker, Principal Human Factors Specialist
Anna holds a BA in English and Psychology, as well as an MA in Psychology. She is Chartered as an Occupational Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council and is an Associate Fellow of the BPS. Anna is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors as well as the European Association for Aviation Psychology. In addition, she holds several BPS psychometric and European Certificate in Psychology qualifications.
Anna has worked in a range of military and civilian psychology and human factors roles for 20 years. Most of these have been in the aviation industry. She has developed and delivered a wide variety of training courses during her career. These have covered a broad spectrum of human factors topics. Anna currently delivers several courses for RSSB.
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Paul Leach, Head of Human Factors
Paul has a BSc in Psychology and an MSc in Occupational Psychology. He is a Registered Occupational Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
Since 2008, Paul has developed and delivered training across many aspects of human factors. These include leadership, safety culture, competence and psychometric assessment, incident investigation, and non-technical skills.
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Dr Kirsten Huysamen, Lead Human Factors Specialist
Kirsten leads the human factors in design and the musculoskeletal disorders workstreams at RSSB. She has over 10 years’ experience in human factors, applying her expertise across the rail, road transport, and manufacturing industries. Kirsten holds a BSc in Human Kinetics and Ergonomics and Psychology, an MSc in Ergonomics, and a PhD in Human Factors and Exoskeleton Design. She is also an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors. Kirsten has developed and delivered training across many aspects of human factors throughout her career.
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Alice Monk, Principal Human Factors Specialist
Alice did an MSc in Ergonomics at Loughborough University between 2008 - 2012. This included a year-long industry placement with RSSB. After graduating, she rejoined RSSB and has remained there ever since. She is currently a Principal Human Factors Specialist.
She has been a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors since 2017. She leads technical areas on SPAD investigation and neurodiversity. She has been designing and delivering training on human factors for over 10 years.’
Bespoke courses
We work directly with organisations to develop and deliver this as a bespoke course. Bespoke courses are tailored to the delegate group and their business needs.
If you would like RSSB to deliver this as a bespoke training course at a location of your choice, please email training@rssb.co.uk. We will then contact you to discuss your needs and how we can tailor the course to your target audience.
