Brief Bites videos: Exploring aspects of Human Factors

Each Brief Bites video is designed to help us to explore what contributes to error and what we can do to reduce this in our working days and how we can improve the systems we work in.

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Safe Systems

Safe Systems

2:15 minutes

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Situational Awareness

Situational awareness

2:12 minutes

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Errors

Errors

2:18 minutes

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Patient outcomes

Patient outcomes

2:38 minutes

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Whose fault is it

Whose fault is it?

2:53 minutes

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Bias

Bias

2:30 minutes

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Premature Closure

Premature closure

2:24 minutes

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Assertiveness

Assertiveness

2:12 minutes

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Sleep hazards

Sleep hazards

2:02 minutes

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Hazardous working hours

Hazardous working hours

2:19 minutes

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Professor Kim Oates biography

Professor Kim Oates, MD DSc MHP FRACP was the former Director of Undergraduate Quality & Safety Education at the Clinical Excellence Commission until early 2020. He was instrumental in driving patient safety education throughout his 50-year career in paediatrics including as former Chief Executive of The Children's Hospital at Westmead. He was a recipient of an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours.