Greenlight Guru Podcast Recap: Human Factors & Risk Management: What's Needed & Why

Human Factors & Risk Management: What's Needed & Why

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Highlights include:

• Human factors is a risk management activity that the FDA and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) requests. It’s all about use-related risk.

• Risk management helps make design decisions around safety and efficacy, and human factors provide a focused view on user- and use-related risks.

• The main contributor that companies come across are deficiencies and questions regarding the human factors process, including the use-related risk assessment.

• Probability and occurrence is challenging for most people. To understand product risk, understand risk is probability and disparity. To know what’s driving human factors, understand what could lead to high-disparity harm or kill someone.

• Based on user needs and human behavior, risk management helps companies understand users, how they interact with your product, and what can go wrong.

• Step-by-step process of risk assessment is to identify all tasks, identify what can go wrong, stay focused to build information, and then identify solutions.

• Product development engineers want their product to be safe and work. Embrace human factors to improve that as a likelihood. Do not resist it.