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Human Factors and Safety (Taught)

1 Study option · Postgraduate

Course summary

Access flexible online human factors training. Study with psychologists and industry experts, and earn human factors qualifications. 10% discount for NHS staff. Join this flexible online postgraduate certificate (PgCert) and develop your qualifications in human factors and safety.

You’ll learn to make valuable contributions to improving safety, efficiency, and human performance in sectors including aviation, energy, manufacturing, and healthcare. With the support of human factors experts from academia and industry, you’ll explore human factors principles and how to apply them in a range of work environments.

You’ll develop specialist expertise in:

  • human factors in industrial practice

  • safety critical skills in industry

  • organisational culture and conflict, and

  • organisational safety and risk.

Who is this online human factors training for?
This distance-learning PgCert is ideal for professionals who want to move into a career in human factors, or who work in human factors already and want to develop and formalise their expertise.

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The University of Aberdeen provides an Alumni Discount Scheme: The University of Aberdeen is very pleased to offer a 20% discount on postgraduate tuition fees for all alumni who have graduated with a degree from the University of Aberdeen.

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