London Branch/IEA – Fighting Fatigue: Understanding Fatigue Risks in Healthcare and the Maritime Industry
The London Branch of SaRS is delighted to announce a joint collaboration webinar between SaRS and the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) Maritime & Ergonomics Technical Committee examining the fatigue risks in healthcare and the maritime industry.
Fatigue is an insidious risk in all industries, one that is often misunderstood, undiagnosed and unregulated and is arguably the biggest performance shaping factor that affects safety and reliability in most industries, particularly those with time and commercial pressures allied to constraints on team resources. In this webinar the risks of fatigue will be explained, the challenges of managing these risks in healthcare and maritime and potential mitigating strategies will be unpacked. Healthcare and maritime, despite challenging work patterns, are often neglected sectors when talking about fatigue risks and share some common issues in the underpinning contribution of fatigue to safety.
This webinar will support safety professionals to understand fatigue risk in more depth, providing more information on the systemic and practical contributors, and provide insight into how fatigue risks can be pragmatically managed. It will also draw from the experience of other industries, specifically rail, who have systematically embedded fatigue management over the last 3 decades.
The webinar will be applicable to a wide range of safety professionals including, managers, operators, members of safety departments, analysts, auditors, investigators, etc.
To register for the webinar please click here.
The webinar will be presented by Laura Pickup and Will Tutton
Laura is a Chartered Fellow of the Institutes of Ergonomics and Human Factors. She obtained a MSc and doctorate in the field of human factors but originally qualified as a chartered physiotherapist and worked clinically within the NHS. She has since worked for over 25 years in the field of human factors in both rail and healthcare. Her work has spanned academic, commercial and public sectors including working as a national healthcare investigator and supporting the development of the national investigation education programme. She currently has two professional roles one as a lead in human factors for an NHS organisation and the other as an independent consultant supporting investigations and service reviews.
Will is a Chartered Fellow of the Institutes of Ergonomics and Human Factors and Marine Engineering Science and Technology, and a founding member of the International Ergonomics Association Technical Committee on maritime human factors. He regularly instructs on accident investigation and human factors post graduate programmes, and as an adjunct professor at the University of Southampton. Will is a Marine Accident Investigation Branch Inspector and worked in the defence sector for 20 years in a variety of roles. Will holds a PhD from Loughborough University, an MSc in aviation human factors, and a post graduate certificate in marine accident investigation and safety.
Starts
Thursday, 11th December 2025 at 12:30pm
Ends
Thursday, 11th December 2025 at 2:00pm