Simulating Human Factors Issues to Understand Human Limitations

Date: TBC | Time: TBC | Track Type: Workshops
Format: Face-to-face | Venue: TBC
Speaker: Asst Prof Yin Shanqing

Human error remains a major contributor to safety incidents in healthcare, yet our understanding of how and why these errors occur is either too abstract or overly simplified, lumping them all under the broad category of “human factors”. This workshop demystifies the common confusion around human factors, and brings human limitations to life, visually, cognitively, and socially. Through simple experiments and simulations, participants will gain a greater understanding of the various concepts behind the fallibility of perception, attention, decision-making, communication, and more. The workshop concludes by exploring how improvement solutions can be made more effective by leveraging on human factors science. With better appreciation of these phenomena, healthcare educators, leaders, and safety practitioners can reframe errors as predictable outcomes in a dynamic, imperfect healthcare system.

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe key human limitations and how they affect clinical performance.
2. Identify latent conditions in healthcare systems that increase the likelihood of human error.
3. Reflect on their own cognitive vulnerabilities and how these might play out in healthcare contexts.
4. Apply human factors principles to design safer systems, environments, and processes.

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