SYSTRA Ltd

SYSTRA is one of the world’s leading engineering and consulting groups, specialising in infrastructure and mobility solutions. In the UK & Ireland, SYSTRA has been creating, improving and modernising infrastructure for more than 50 years.

The SYSTRA Human Factors team has a strong record in the successful delivery of services to a wide variety of regulated safety-critical sectors, including rail, road, aviation, and oil and gas. The highly skilled and experienced team is made up of ergonomists and applied psychologists, and includes specialists in systems engineering, requirements management, in-cab and conventional railway signalling, reliability and safety assurance.

Their primary vision is to support the successful delivery of challenging and complex engineering programmes by ensuring that each system is designed with the end user in mind. Examples of recent delivery include construction-phase accident investigation, station wayfinding, signaller workload assessments and asset design.

The SYSTRA Human Factors team is adept and experienced in systems engineering. This ensures our expertise integrates with our world-class systems engineering and assurance offering to provide our clients with a holistic systems approach in optimising safety and performance. We also work closely with transport planning and social market research teams to deliver agile pieces of research, representing the end user in planned localised change schemes, the introduction of new transport infrastructure, or the introduction and roll out of new transport fleets. We work for a global consultancy business and have experience in delivering work both in the UK and overseas, in Europe, Australia and the Middle East.

Our team applies established principles, methodologies, and techniques to support the design development lifecycle and to optimise human and system performance. Key services offered by our team include:

• Human factors integration and assurance.
• Systems integration.
• User-centred design and user experience.
• Accessibility and inclusion.
• Operational workspace design.
• Human machine interface (HMI).
• Accident and incident investigation support.
• Organisational performance, culture, and safety.
• Usability assessment and design.
• User requirements development.
• Operations and maintenance.