Carlo joined the School of Aviation in 2010. He has an Undergraduate Honours degree in Psychology from the University of Newcastle, and a PhD in Psychology from the University of New South Wales.
Carlo research is in human factors and safety applied across several domains, including
- Human error analysis
- Risk perception and communication
- Distraction and fatigue
- Psychosocial hazards and psychosocial injury
- System safety and risk...view more
Carlo joined the School of Aviation in 2010. He has an Undergraduate Honours degree in Psychology from the University of Newcastle, and a PhD in Psychology from the University of New South Wales.
Carlo research is in human factors and safety applied across several domains, including
- Human error analysis
- Risk perception and communication
- Distraction and fatigue
- Psychosocial hazards and psychosocial injury
- System safety and risk management
Carlo provides expert witness testimony, particularly regarding safe systems of work, and provides consultancy advice to several industries on safety-related projects (workplace culture, safety management, psychosocial hazards). He regularly provides seminars and keynotes to industry forums regarding safe systems of work.
Carlo is a member of the Standards Australia Committee responsible for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (SF001) which deals with AS/NZSISO 45001:2018, and part of the Australian delegation to ISO Technical Committee 283 which developed an International Standard on Psychological Health at Work (ISO45003: 2021). He is a member of the Safework NSW MSD Consultative Committee.
Professional Affiliations:
President, International Association for Workplace Bullying and Harassment (IAWBH)
Member, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA)
Carlo currently teaches AVIA9101 Safety Risk Management: Human Processes, and AVIA3013/GENS5003 Workplace safety.
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
A range of potential topics for research degrees include
- Reliability and usability of methods for understanding complex systems and incidents (eg. FRAM)
- Application and refinement of Human Factors taxonomies and tools
- Evaluating methods for error and incident classification
- Assessing the validity of trainee Pilot selection tests
- Methods for providing feedback on trainee pilot visual scanning
- Driver distraction from smartphone use, including voice control activation
- Driver drowsiness on short commuter trips
- Safety management systems and management systems standards (MSS)
- Aviation health and wellbeing: physical and mental health of crew and passengers
- Accessibility and usability of public spaces
- Improving Injury data classification and management
- Psychosocial hazard management and work re-design
- Workplace safety in various domains/applications (including work re-design for older workers, injury classifications, improving WHS databases)
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