Research projects

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Project ↓	Description	Start Date	End Date
Transport ergonomics for people with disabilities	Assessing the stability and physical demands of physically disabled drivers while driving
Transport research	Behavioural adaptation training; complex skills in applied settings; mental workload measurement techniques; human error; safety critical systems.
Transport research	Transport safety, psychology, planning and behaviour, rail systems, freight, logistics, engineering, infrastructure, energy and environment.
Trust and safety in the off-shore and other high-hazard industries	In collaboration with Dr Stacey Conchie
Understanding and responding to societal concerns	Societal concerns include numerous disparate entities. This report demonstrates that these range from worries about the risk associated with a hazard, to value conflicts, process failures and self-interest.		2002-01-01
Understanding Risk programme	• Shifting patterns of lay risk perception and risk governance in contemporary Britain.	2001	2005
Vehicle and pedestrian conspicuity	Costs benefits of the use of retro reflective tape on the rear of HGVs, buses and coaches and in the development of high visbility garments to be used by the police.
Vibration Injury Network	The main objective of the Vibration Injury Network was to advance methods for the detection and prevention of injury due to vibration exposures at work.	1988-04-01	2001-03-01
Vocational rehabilitation	Research into psychosocial factors related to disability; the application of vocational rehabilitation interventions; and assessment of psychosocial determinants of ill-health behaviours impacting upon work capability.
What constitutes effective manual handling training?	Funded by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
What makes superior health and safety performance: Investigating the relationship between the provision of professionally competent OSH management resources and superior H&S performance in construction organisations	Investigates the relationship between the provision and application of professionally competent occupational safety and health (OSH) management resources and OSH performance in a range of construction organisations.
Which doctors are influenced by a patient’s age? A multi-method study of angina treatment in general practice, cardiology and gerontology.	To investigate whether, and how, individual doctors are influenced by a patient`s age in their investigation and treatment of angina.
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders and risk assessment	Workplace design, work related musculoskeletal disorders and transport ergonomics.
Workplace design	Assessing the layout and design of train driver cabs

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