Instructor: Douglas Wiegmann
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Biography: Dr. Douglas A. Wiegmann is Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before joining the faculty in Madison, Wisconsin he was a National Institutes of Health Roadmap Scholar at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine where he also served as the Director of Human Factors and Patient Safety Research within the Division of Cardiovascular Surgery. Dr. Wiegmann has also been an associate professor of Human Factors at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and formerly served as an aviation psychologist and accident investigator for both the National Transportation Safety Board and the United States Navy. Dr. Wiegmann received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology in 1992 from Texas Christian University. He earned a post-doctoral master's degree in biomedical science from the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in 2007. Drs. Doug Wiegmann and Scott Shappell are co-developers of the Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), and are in fact founding partners of HFACS, Inc. No one else offers equitable expertise in applying HFACS in industry. They have worked with over 100 Fortune 500 companies and have experience in applying HFACS to aviation, mining and smelting, healthcare, construction, rail, utilities, oil and gas, field maintenance, and entertainment, to name a few.
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Courses by this instructor
HFACS - Advanced (Virtual)

June 10-11, 2025, Online Course
October 14-15, 2025, Online Course
HFACS - Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (In-Person)

December 16-17, 2025
HFACS - Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (Virtual)

September 9-10, 2025, Online Course
Innovative Interventions: Mastering Human Factors in Accident Prevention (Virtual)
