About Us
Established: 2019
Indemnity: Company
Chartered ergonomists: 1
Other ergonomists: 2
Staff: 20
Occam Group is a privately owned consultancy specialising in Human Factors, Safety and Environmental Management, Materials Assurance, Independent Technical Evaluation, and Independent Audits and Advice. We work across multiple sectors including defence, nuclear, and transportation, with experience in the clean/renewable energy and oil & gas sectors.
Occam’s HF team, and the wider consultancy, is based in the UK. However, due to Occam’s flexible approach to our clients’ needs, the team provides services to international clients. Despite being a small company with a small HF team, these are exciting times within Occam Group as we are expanding and growing our business and service offering. We are also supported by a strong team of HF associates to help with the delivery of larger contracts.
Areas of Work
In support of Occam’s mission, the HF team uses its combined experience of over 20 years of HF knowledge, expertise, and delivery to help customers develop simple, effective, safe, and sustainable solutions for complex technical problems. Occam’s Human Factors services include:
- Analysis of accidents/incidents, and health and safety at work.
- Anthropometry studies.
- Cognitive ergonomics of complex tasks.
- Competence Management System (CMS) development, review, and assessment.
- Control room assessment and design, including computer terminal design and layout of displays and controls.
- Design of Human Machine Interfaces (HMI) and Human Computer Interfaces (HCI).
- Environmental ergonomics.
- Human error identification, analysis, and reduction.
- Human Factors assurance (e.g. Verification and Validation process).
- Human Factors Engineering (HFE) services for large-scale projects.
- Human Factors Integration (HFI), strategy, planning, and management (e.g. HFIP).
- Human Factors requirements and user requirements identification and management.
- Human Factors training and mentoring.
- Human Reliability Assessment (HRA), including qualitative and quantitative analysis.
- Manual handling of loads – safety and training.
- Office ergonomics and design, including Display Screen Equipment (DSE) assessment.
- Safety Assurance and Safety Case input and support (nuclear, COMAH, transportation, defence).
- Safety culture and safety management systems evaluation and design.
- Task analysis, Safety Critical Task Analysis (SCTA).
- Training Needs Analysis and training material development and design (including procedures, work instructions, and job aids).
- Usability assessments.
- Workload assessments.
- Workspace design and workplace ergonomics.
