The science of human factors refers to the individual and environmental influences which impact personal behaviour and subsequently health and safety within the workplace [1,2]. A triad of interdependent factors within the healthcare system (Fig. 1) can align to produce medical error via the well-documented ‘Swiss cheese’ model, with 1 in 20 hospital admissions believed to include a medical error of some shape or form [3]. Persistent effort is necessary to raise awareness of human factors and ut…