About Us
Douglas Human Factors (DHF) offers specialised consultancy in psychology as it relates to mental health at work, physical safety, compliance, productivity, leadership and psychosocial safety in the workplace. DHF finds science-based solutions to problems that involve and affect people at work.
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Our strength is assisting organisations to understand their challenges and what is causing them, then design and implement solutions based on human-centred principles. We find solutions that can be integrated into existing systems of work, rather than adding unnecessary operational and administrative complexity.​
Aims
DHF believe that good work is good for people and that well-designed work can contribute to wellbeing and a sense of thriving, both for the individual at work and the organisation as a whole. We collaborate with organisations to enhance operational performance and employee safety, health and wellbeing at the same time.
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We apply first principles science to your specific circumstances in a way that makes sense, thus making the positive outcomes of applying psychology to work accessible and sustainable.
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We help you to understand how to meet your legislative and moral obligations through the factors that you have control over.
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We integrate the principles of human factors and psychology into existing systems to improve the likelihood of success, without over complicating the system or adding unnecessary demands to peoples’ work.
Amy Douglas
Director | Principal Psychologist
Amy is a clinical psychologist and human factors specialist. She endeavours to make psychology as it applies to mental health and safety at work easy to understand so that we can remove the mystery and make the benefits it brings, do-able.
A highly skilled facilitator, she uses her communication skills to find out what’s up with individuals and collections of individuals working in organisations to find solutions to problems.
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Amy has worked as a psychologist, human factors specialist, project manager, consultant, facilitator, coach and clinician. She worked for the WA mining regulator, now known as the Department of Mines, Industry Relations and Safety (DMIRS), for many years. As the principal human factors inspector, Amy led the multi-year strategic plan aimed at building both internal capability within mining, critical risk, and dangerous goods major hazard facilities, and externally in industry. Importantly, Amy led the implementation of the mentally healthy workplaces strategy for the state and was the primary author of the first code of practice for managing psychosocial hazards and risks in Australia.
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Amy has worked with people over many different areas of the world including Australia, North America, South Africa, Namibia, Europe and Malaysia. The industries she has consulted to include both private and public enterprise, underground and open cut mining, manufacturing, haulage, utilities, construction and oil and gas (on and off shore).