Dr Sara Pazell 
A business in the finance sector was designing a new, efficient way of working. They envisioned providing customer service in new space requiring less of a real estate footprint than the previous commercial properties. Discovery Part 1: A human factors workshop was facilitated to consider the design objectives, the customer journey, and the worker job, … Read more
What helps YOU experience “flow”? When do you feel challenged to the just-right degree? For me, that flow comes from the construction of health and its creative design (and co-design): Design for the sequencing and choreography of a yoga class or strength & conditioning session for a friend and me to try Design of fun … Read more
We can dream big when we flip risk measures to health aspirations per a design platform. Psychosocial Risk is getting a lot of attention with the recent release of the ISO 45003:2021: Occupational health and safety management — Psychological health and safety at work — Guidelines for managing psychosocial risks [i] and the publication of … Read more
Workplace assessment can benefit from exercise conditioning and yoga sciences: advanced ergonomics practitioners can take a systems approach to better reflect their understanding of complexity and variability in human conditions and work design. I use the images of myself at right (yoga practice) and while sitting crossed-legged (a yoga sukasana pose) when I wish to … Read more
How Good Work can be Driven Good work design is a global concept because it relates to human rights initiatives to ensure healthful and well living. This includes the ability to be productive in meaningful ways while creating a positive impact in the world. There are international standards supporting the initiatives of good work design, … Read more
Distributed workforce management is not new, but the epic change of work design during pandemic management is a confronting yet opportunity-laden experience for most organisational strategists. How can we turn the experience of work-from-anywhere into a rewarding and productive situation while at the same time manage the health, safety, financial, and legal risks? We can … Read more
It’s in the DNA of the Human-Centred Organisation Good work design, underpinned by human-centred design, human factors, and ergonomics, is a concept that is emerging in Australian workplaces and supported by literature,[i] guidance material,[ii] and international standards.[iii], [iv] It can be defined as: The process of identifying opportunities and problems through inquiry and bringing people … Read more
Good work requires conditions in which creativity may flourish and innovation is encouraged. A tolerance for experimentation is required because novel ideas need to be tested. For ideas to flow, those who submit the ideas must feel protected and, thus, permitted to stumble before they walk or fly. The approach is one of positive psychology … Read more
It was my great pleasure to facilitate a roundtable discussion at the 8th Annual OHS Leaders Summit, 13/14 March 2019, Brisbane, QLD, with my colleague Molly Farmer, representing Humanscale. We presented Good Work Design: Design of Work for Well-Being. We discussed the types of work that can be provided to support wellness, well-being, and wholeness. We discussed … Read more
Work as a Prescription for Health Positive design (Desment & Pohlmeyer, 2013) within an occupational framework, is a term that may be used to describe the design of a space, environment, work system, equipment, or tools in such a way that humans, broadly, are beneficiaries. It is an approach in human-centred design, underpinned by participative … Read more
