Get the industrial experience, mentorship and training you need for the in-demand human factors profession through authentic learning opportunities.
Break further into the human factors industry in alignment with Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF) competencies and practical work with IHF clients.
Do You Need Authentic Industrial Experience to Progress Your Human Factors Career?
IHF have recognised the demand for human factors professionals is growing but there is a lack of an authentic learning pathway to fulfil the demand from industry who want experienced human factors practitioners. This means if you are a recent higher education graduate or want to transition from a related profession such as technical safety there is an industrial experience gap that can limit your career progression and suitability for in-demand human factors roles.
Human Factors Practitioners Shortage
IHF have recognised the demand for human factors professionals is growing, but there is a supply problem due to factors such as the industrial experience gap and the lack of pragmatic pathways to bridge this.
Authentic Learning and Industrial Experience Gap
IHF have also identified there is an authentic learning gap for human factors graduates to enter the workplace as suitability qualified experienced personnel (SQEP) for heavily regulated industries such as nuclear.
Wider Societal and Organisational Impacts
This concerning industrial experience gap trend has wider implications for the human factors profession but also the safety-critical purpose of this practice.
“Managing human failures is essential to prevent major accidents, occupational accidents and ill health, all of which can cost businesses money, reputation and potentially their continued existence.”
IHF Academy Solution: A Pragmatic Industrial Pathway to Accelerate Your Human Factors Career
The IHF Academy aims to benefit human factors professionals who want to accelerate their career, organisations who rely on safety-critical human factors practices and a result wider society by providing a solution to the industrial experience gap. The IHF Academy provides a pragmatic pathway to the industrial experience, mentorship and training you need for in-demand human factors roles through authentic learning opportunities.
Establish Your Human Factors Competency by Becoming a Pracademic in an In-Demand Profession
Build on your academic human factors education with pragmatic practical experience that is tailored to your industrial experience gaps and the needs of real IHF clients.
Engage in a Pragmatic Industrial Pathway Through Mentor-Led Authentic Learning
Gain skills through industrial experience, mentorship and training for critical infrastructure such as human error analysis (HEA) and safety critical task analysis (SCTA), that are aligned with CIEHF competencies.
Progress Your Career in an Industry With Wider Societal Impacts
By being part of the solution to the industrial experience gap you can help meet the organisational and societal demand for human factors professionals with the ultimate reward of advancing a human-centred career that aims to increase general well-being.
The Benefits of the IHF Academy to You, Your Organisation and Wider Society
Advance Your CIEHF Membership
The IHF Academy can help you get through the industrial experience stages of CIEHF membership from technical membership to fellow membership.
Accelerate Your Career by Bridging the Industrial Experience Gap
Break further into the human factors industry — and help your current or future employer — in alignment with CIEHF competencies and practical work with IHF clients.
Become a Rounded Human Factors Professional That Benefits Wider Society
Apply knowledge in practical and real-world work cases, become SQEP for heavily regulated industries such as nuclear, develop in an engaging and supportive environment through mentorship and authentically learn using a pragmatic framework designed by human factors experts.
Award-Winning Global Human Factors Specialists
IHF is a global technology-enabled leader in all things human factors, working with some of the largest international companies across the world. Providing skilled human factors practitioners to implement an array of consulting, training and leading-edge software and wearable technology solutions to identify and minimise the likelihood of human error and improve overall human performance. IHF is a registered consultancy with the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF).