In simple terms, human factors are all those things that enhance or improve human performance in the workplace. As a discipline, human factors is concerned with understanding interactions between people and other elements of complex systems. Human factors applies scientific knowledge and principles as well as lessons learned from previous incidents and operational experience to optimise human wellbeing, overall system performance and reliability. The discipline contributes to the design and evaluation of organisations, tasks, jobs and equipment, environments, products and systems. It focuses on the inherent characteristics, needs, abilities and limitations of people and the development of sustainable and safe working cultures.

Human Factors Engineering (HFE) focuses on the application of human factors knowledge to the design and construction of systems. The objective is to ensure systems are designed in a way that optimises the human contribution to production and minimises potential for design-induced risks to health, personal or process safety or environmental performance.

What does Milcot Engineering Services Limited do?

Milcot Engineeering Services is an independent Human Factors Consultancy based in Yorkshire that has and continues to provided Human Factors Consultancy Service to Multi National projects across the Defence and Rail industry both in the UK and Internationally over the past 22 years.