Human Factors in Healthcare Introductory Course

Human Factors in Healthcare Introductory Course

Learn to recognise and manage Human Factors for safer patient care

Our 1-day introductory course gives healthcare professionals a practical introduction to Human Factors and their impact on patient safety.

Through healthcare-specific examples and interactive exercises, we explore how factors such as communication, teamwork, leadership, stress and fatigue influence performance, and focus on practical strategies to manage their impact and enhance patient safety.

What This Course Covers

Every course is tailored to your organisation’s specific challenges. Typical topics include:

How human performance and limitations affect patient safety

How stress and fatigue affect performance, and practical ways to manage their impact

How communication can break down in healthcare teams, and what helps information get through clearly

How teamwork, leadership and decision-making influence safety and patient care

How procedures and Human Factors tools can support healthcare professionals in reducing everyday risk

Tailored to Your Healthcare Organisation

We start with a core set of topics that gives your team a clear, practical introduction to human factors. From there, we tailor the content to your organisation’s real challenges – from procedural adherence, stress and workload, breakdown of communication, or whatever matters most to your team. 

Rated 5.0 on Google

Trusted by professionals worldwide

Training in Human Factors can help:

  • Understand when and how to intervene, challenges faced when intervening, and intervention models
  • Develop an understanding of how a proper safety culture can enhance performance  
  • Identify and address human performance limitations that can lead to unsafe behaviour
  • Create a practical team-based threat and error management training that can assist organisations in improved safety and efficiency 
  • Design strategies to improve effective collaboration across teams
  • Examine and address organisational and systemic influences that shape human performance

Safety managers, operators, supervisors, accident investigators, and CEOs all benefit from this course – as does anyone on your team who wants a shared understanding of how human factors affect safety and performance.

Before your course, we talk through your organisation’s specific needs – the challenges and risks your workforce is facing – and build the content around what matters to your team.

Depending on group size and the topics you want covered, the course can include role-play, group activities, exercises, and industry case studies. Participants are encouraged to share stories, compare ideas, and work through human factors challenges together, with expert facilitator support throughout.

FAQ

We have gathered the most frequently asked questions from our customers to help you in the best way possible.

No. Participants do not need any prior experience with Human Factors to complete this course.

Yes. We start with a conversation about your organisation’s specific needs and challenges, and shape the course content around what matters most to your team.

This course can be delivered either online or in person at your own facility, depending on what works best for your organisation.

Pricing starts from €1,499 for a training day, adjusted depending on the level of customisation your organisation needs.

Contact us for a personalised quote.

This is an introductory course, not a certification. It’s designed to build understanding of human factors across your team, not provide a formal qualification.

Build Safer Healthcare Teams

A practical introduction to human factors – built around the risks and challenges your team faces.

Request quote

Not sure yet? Try one for free

Get DELPHI© – one of the group exercises we use in our own training – completely free.

See how a NaviMinds exercise works before choosing one for your own training.

Cover of trainer's manual for NaviMinds' version of the DELPHI method

Request quote