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DR DAWN BENSON

Clinical Human Factors: bringing resilience into healthcare simulation

THE CONFERENCE IS NOW SOLD OUT - WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN SOUTHAMPTON!

SIM 4 SAFETY CONFERENCE

May 22/23

Southampton Solent University

SIM 4 SAFETY 2024

Simulation4Safety is our third conference, following on from Simulation4Impact and Optimise Simulation.

Our conference themes recognise firstly that simulation should show delivery of improvement in service-user experiences and outcomes; secondly that recent significant investment in resources should be met by faculty skilled and motivated to make optimal use of these resources to deliver; and now that safety is a key indicator and desirable outcome.

Simulation4Safety shows evolution and aspiration flowing from our experiences and your feedback.

Our sole keynote speaker, Dr Dawn Benson, is a sociologist who specialises in safety investigation within health, social care, and education currently works as a National Investigator at the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB).

The programme replaces passive listening with conferring, workshops, and networking, establishing collaborations across our geographically wide South-East community, we expect to see innovative work in safety, enhanced approaches to meeting training resource demands, and simply better simulation, as outcomes.

Simulation4Safety challenges you to not only provide content celebrating your work but also fruitfully engage with others, including those you may regard as stakeholders, colleagues, overseers, and enablers. The overarching aim is quality, so whilst we expect to see safety woven into the tapestry of the conference, please do submit work without a safety focus that may form an illuminating vignette in the complete picture.

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Safety Investigation

Dawn is a sociologist who specialises in safety investigation within health, social care, and education. Dawn spent almost 20 years as an academic, researching and teaching at the universities of Northumbria, Aberdeen, and Oxford. Her work in Human Factors and patient safety was born from personal experience when her first child was birth injured. She is particularly interested in how we improve services by engaging patient/service user perspective. More recently she has developed an educational function at the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) where she worked as a national investigator for 5 years. Dawn is currently a Programme Manager at the Clinical and Human Factors Group.

Come along to see Dawn at SimNet 2024 and learn more about:

Unpacking what Human Factors is and is not
The role of Human Factors in healthcare safety and improvement
Using systems thinking in simulation to foster resilience

DAVID JOHN WOLFAARDT

Course Leader for Nautical Science

How are Maritime and Health Alike?

David started his maritime career in 1986 as a Combat Officer in the South African Navy. He served on a variety of ships including fleet auxiliaries, submarines and mine clearance vessels, and after completing a successful 2-year Command tour, he decided to focus his career on maritime education & training and left the Navy in 1998 for employment in the international shipping industry.

He joined the Marine Division of Safmarine Shipping Line as Training & Development Officer and was responsible for coordinating the training and development of all seafarers and to manage the recruiting, selection and operation of the company’s Deck and Engineering Cadet training programs.

David was a member of the project team that established the South African Maritime Training Academy and joined as an instructor when it opened in 2003. He was promoted to Academic Head in 2014 - leading a team of lecturers and instructors to provide deck and marine engineering academic programs, a range of simulation, safety and professional short courses, as well as MCA-approved superyacht training for deck and engineering students in partnership with Professional Yachtmaster Training.

David has developed extensive experience in the fields of maritime education, training administration and development, as well as marine simulation training. He participated on various maritime industry forums and committees in South Africa and has recently joined Warsash Maritime School, part of Solent University, as Course Leader for Nautical Science.