About us
Established: 1920
Indemnity: Company
Chartered ergonomists: 4
Consultants: ~1200
Frazer-Nash are a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy delivering innovative systems, engineering, and technology solutions across multiple industries to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable. Our Applied Human Sciences Group ensures that human considerations are embedded throughout the design and delivery of these solutions.
Our team brings together Human Factors Specialists and Behavioural Scientists, providing a distinctive combination of expertise in system design and human behaviour. This integrated approach enables us to understand not only how systems should be designed for people, but also how behavioural factors influence how they are used in practice.
The group comprises 20+ specialists based across our UK offices in Bristol, Burton, Glasgow, Leatherhead, and Manchester. Our consultants work flexibly with clients, from embedded roles within organisations to project-based consultancy, collaborating closely with multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Our services include human-centred design, usability and UX evaluation, task and cognitive analysis, safety-critical human factors, human reliability analysis, workplace ergonomics, and human factors strategy and capability development.
Our experience spans a range of industries with the majority of our work falling in:
- Energy and utilities (nuclear, gas, electric, renewables)
- Defence and security, and
- Transportation (rail, maritime, aviation)
- Government and public sector
- Digital systems and emerging technologies
Areas of Work
- Human Factors strategy and Integration
- Research
- Ergonomic Assessment
- HMI and HCI Design
- Organisational and Social Aspects
- Safety critical and Human Reliability Assessments including human error assessments
- Emerging technologies including AI
- Usability and User Experience
- Task and work analysis including HTA and CTA
- Control room and complex system design
