Mott MacDonald Ltd

27 Jan 2022

About us

Established: 1902
Indemnity: Company
Chartered ergonomists: 6
Other ergonomists: 7
Other consultants: 16,000

Mott MacDonald is a world-leading development, engineering and management consultancy who provide human factors solutions to a wide client base.

Our understanding of complex and large scale assignments helps ensure that our human factors interventions are clearly targeted and become an integrated part of the design process. Because we have delivered on numerous difficult and demanding programmes we have a strong and successful track record as a consultancy that can be relied upon to deliver innovative and creative solutions.

With the ability to draw on the multi-disciplinary resources of Mott MacDonald Group, we are uniquely positioned to use the knowledge and experience of engineers, architects and operational and maintenance specialists to turn project ideas into reality. We also have access to cutting edge technology and the facilities to apply techniques such as passenger flow modelling and visualisation to assess the impact of ergonomic proposals.

Our team of qualified ergonomists and applied psychologist have performed work for major clients in a range of sectors including transportation (light and heavy rail, metro, aviation and highways), nuclear, power, defence, chemical & process, and oil & gas.

Areas of work

  • Accidents; Health and Safety at Work
  • Anatomy & anthropometry in human activities
  • Cognitive ergonomics, complex tasks
  • Computer software ergonomics
  • Computer terminals – design & layout
  • Design and Layout of Displays and Controls
  • Design of Control Rooms
  • Environmental ergonomics
  • Human-Computer Interface Design and Assessment
  • Human Reliability
  • Industrial/commerical workplace design
  • Management & ergonomics
  • Risk Assessments: Various Work Situations
  • Sociotechnical systems & ergonomics
  • Systems Analysis
  • Task Analysis
  • User Requirements & Guidance
  • Usability assessment
  • Vehicle & Transport Ergonomics