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Aerospace psychology Air Safety Air Transportation AIRCRAFT MAINTENANCE ORGANISATIONS Applied Psychology Behavioral Science Education Behavioral/Experimental Psychology CLIMATE Computer-Aided Instruction Control theory of human accident causation Cultural/Social Anthropology Culture and health Culture, systems and development Education and Work Education, Organizational Theory & Behavior Educational Evaluation/Assessment Educational Psychology Educational Testing/Measurement Educational/Instructional Technology E-Learning Engineering Psychology Human Learning and Memory Industrial Psychology Information technology in education Innovation in learning Learning Motivation Operations management Organisation design, development, theory, behaviour Organizational Theory and Behavior Psychology Road/Highway Safety SAFETY CULTURE SAFETY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Safety, reliabaility and innovation, organisational cultures Transportation Virtual learning environments Work Motivation

Research Projects

Project Title

Developing a multi-faceted approach to reducing and mitigating the risk of foreign object retention

From

December 2016

December 2018

Summary

Over 1,000 Irish FOR incidents between 2011 and 2015 represent unnecessary suffering patients, reputational cost/damage to the healthcare service, institution and clinician and financial cost in claims and rework. FOR is an intractable human factors problem because removing materials after a task is not integrated into the natural task sequence, thus more susceptible to a "lapse" error. While the problem traverses tasks and industries the challenges can be specific to the sector, organisation, team, task and object. Generic risk controls need to be tailored to the specific context. Healthcare-specific human factors may be the hierarchical structure of medical/surgical teams, interdisciplinary communication, the culture around "speaking up" and the training history in a "conservative profession". The objective of this research project will be to integrate the best of existing methods into a foreign object management process and an implementation roadmap. The foreign object management process is a generic process which can be customised for application to diverse contexts. The implementation roadmap is a framework for introducing, customising and embedding the process in a hospital, including stakeholder identification and engagement, training, resourcing and continuous improvement. Two pilot hospitals have been chosen to analyse surgical and obstetric services. Two groups of stakeholders from the pilot hospitals will be identified and engaged with throughout the project - process stakeholders (surgeons, obstetricians, theatre nurses, midwives) and system stakeholders (hospital administrators, educators, device manufacturers, risk managers, patient representatives, indemnifiers, regulators). The project brings together an experienced multi-disciplinary team from human factors, psychology, risk & change management, surgery, obstetrics /gynaecology, nursing/midwifery. Human factors and risk management tools - process modelling, bowtie, stakeholder analysis - will be applied to analyse the challenges and develop the most effective solutions. The project team includes stakeholders in key positions in the health services to enable effective execution, dissemination and uptake of the projects results.

Funding Agency

Health Research Board

Programme

Research Collaborative in Quality and Patient Safety)

Project Title

The social and psychological mechanisms and outcomes of self-help groups in Ethiopia

From

November 2016

May 2017

Summary

A number of studies have confirmed that the Self Help Group (SHG) approach brings about various levels of change and empowerment while accumulating financial capital, as well as being cost-effective. Tearfund's underlying theory of change asserts that relationships and social capital are key towards achieving this. However studies conducted so far have touched on this, yet not researched this mechanism in depths from a psychological perspective. Emphasis has been largely on tangible benefits, though a psychological lens is believed to reveal intangible mechanisms and benefits. It is anticipated that a better understanding of the role of relationships and social capital in the SHGs will further improve the quality of the implementation if the Self Help Group approach. This research aims to: . Evaluate the impact of SHGs on the social, psychological and spiritual wellbeing of their members . Elucidate the features SHGs which promote, and those that may hamper, achieving this impact . Elaborate and adjust the Tearfund theory of change for SHG The study comprises mixed methods study of ten SHGs. The SHGs were chosen deliberately to include: . Five young ( less than 2 years) and five older ( more than 5 years) SHGs . High (5), Medium (4) and Low (1) functioning SHGs . SHGs from two regions - Oromiya and Wolaita Four data collection methods are being used in the study Surveys of the SHG members, including: o Demographic data o Self-evaluations of current status and changes since joining the SHG in finances, health, education, and wellbeing o Standardised scales of key psycho-social and spiritual dimensions o Team evaluation items In-depth focus groups with the SHGs focussed on elaborating their understanding of how the SHGs work, how they influence change in their members' lives and what the key mechanisms are Profiling of SHGs using a structured interview with key informants and reference to data gathered by Tearfund or its partners: o Date of formation, location, ethnic and religious composition, etc. o Local socio-political and economic context o Any significant events in the history of the SHG - internal conflicts, members leaving, drought challenges Semi-structured observations of the focus groups to gather data on non-verbal behaviours and team interactions

Funding Agency

BuZa/Tear, and co-funded by Tearfund and Tearfund Ireland

Project Title

Innovation through Human Factors in risk analysis and management (InnHF)

From

Nov 2011

Oct 2015

Summary

The INNHF main objective is to formalize an approach and make it possible to integrate the current and developing assessment methods recommended or required by recognized industrial standards and methodologies, with an easy to use but complete human factors and system health management approach, the following goals will be achieved: 1) Review of the applicability of most the recent generation of standards that are not yet fully acquired by different industries and verification of their effectiveness in safety assessment. 2) Devising a method to account qualitatively and quantitatively for the human factor in the wider applied risk assessment methodologies. Verifying how a proper account of the impact of human and organizational factors (H&OF) in the operational phase may provide a sensitive change in the results of the assessments. 3) Reviewing the methods to account qualitatively and quantitatively for maintenance effectiveness, also taking into account HOFs, verifying how a proper account of the maintenance strategy may provide a sensitive change in the results of the assessments. 4) To translate the results of the analysis performed through the novel approach in a factual design improvement initiative for new or existing plant or machinery able to provide leverage for competitive advantage (maximum availability, minimum unscheduled shutdowns of production, economic maintenance, minimum incident and accident). 5) The final objective of the project will be the development of a training program aimed at covering all the technical areas of expertise necessary to successfully carry out the case studies objectives. This training program will be initially rolled out internally to provide new researcher with a set of innovative skills to maximize the employment prospects for new researchers in large and/or SM enterprises. Further the training materials and content developed will also be offered to the wider community of the relevant industrial domains for the purpose of testing and dissemination.

Funding Agency

EU FP7

Programme

Marie Curie

Project Type

Initial training network

Project Title

ManuVar

From

2009

2011

Summary

Through the use of virtual and augmented reality technology (VR / AR), the ManuVAR project will demonstrate that high value, high knowledge manual work presents an opportunity to improve the competitiveness of EU industries. ManuVar ( http://www.manuvar.eu/ ) is a European comprises 18 partner organisations across 8 countries.

Funding Agency

Programme

FP7-NMP

Project Type

Integrated Project

Project Title

STAMINA-BPM

From

2009

2011

Summary

Developing Human Factors training tailored to the Bio-Pharma-Medica industry.

Funding Agency

Programme

Leonardo Da Vinci

Project Type

Transfer of Innovation

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Representations

Details	Date
Member of Water for Cameroon Ireland (WFCI) Working Group. This is a group that meets muti-annually to advise the Projects Manager on strategy, governance and ethics. WFCI is a charity that support sustainable community-led water projects in Cameroon.	2017

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details	Date From	Date To
Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors	2016	Date
Safety in Health Systems Group - Ireland	2014	Date
CIEHF Human Factors in Pharma Interest Group	2017	Date
European Aviation Maintenance Training Committee
Joint Aviation Authority Maintenance Human Factors Subcommittee
Psychological Society of Ireland	1987	1998

Publications and other Research Outputs

Eduard Negoescu, Romaric Marcilly, Samuel Cromie, Aaron Koay, Tamasine Grimes, The medication self-management work system of patients and informal carers from a human factors & ergonomics perspective: A scoping review protocol., HRB Open Research, 6, (4), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED URL URL

AlMutairi, M., Redmond, P., Cromie, S., Grimes T., Household medicine disposal and waste management in Ireland, the need for a systems-based approach. , Irish Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022, phttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11845 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED DOI

Paul Fagan, Hannah Quinn-Gates, Mengistie Rebsso, Sam Cromie, The Impact of Self Help Groups on the Psychosocial Well-Being of Female Members in Ethiopia, International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology, 6, 2021, p81 - 112, Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1007/s41042-020-00038-4 ], Journal Article, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text DOI URL

Waldron, C., Cahill, J., Cromie, S., Delaney, T., Kennelly, S., Pevnick, J., and Grimes, T., Personal Electronic Records of Medications (PERMs) for medication reconciliation at care transitions: a rapid realist review., BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making , 21, (307), 2021, p1 - 17, Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-021-01659-8], Journal Article, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text DOI

Ethical Issues in the New Digital Era: The Case of Assisting Driving in, Ethics, Laws, and Policies for Privacy, Security, and Liability, London, UK, Intechopen, 2020, pp1 - 30, [Cahill, J., Cromie, S., Crowley, K, Kay, A., Gormley M, Kenny, E., Hermman, S, Doyle, C, Hever, A and Ross, R ], Notes: [DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.88371. https://www.intechopen.com/online-first/ethical-issues-in-the-new-digital-era-the-case-of-assisting-driving], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text DOI URL

Driver Persistence, Safety and Older Adult Self-efficacy: Addressing Driving Challenges Using Innovative Multimodal Communication Concepts in, editor(s)Kalra J., Lightner N. (eds) , Advances in Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare and Medical Devices. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Springer, Cham, 2020, pp313 - 319, [Cahill J., Cromie, S., Crowley, K, Kay, A., Gormley M, Kenny, E., Hermman, S, Doyle, C, Hever, A and Ross, R], Notes: [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50838-8_43. ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text URL

Advancing a 'Human Factors & Ethics Canvas' for New Driver Assistance Technologies Targeted at Older Adults in, editor(s)Duffy V. (eds) , Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management. Posture, Motion and Health. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12198, Springer, Cham, 2020, pp503-520 , [Cahill, J., Cromie, S., Crowley, K, Kay, A., Gormley M, Kenny, E., Hermman, S, Doyle, C, Hever, A and Ross, R. ], Notes: [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-49904-4_37], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text DOI

Grimes T, Garfield S, Kelly D, Cahill J, Wheeler C, Cromie S, Franklin BD, Household Medication Safety Practices during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Qualitative Study Protocol, BMJ Open, 10, (11 ), 2020, p1 - 6, Notes: [doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-044441. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/10/11/e044441.full], Journal Article, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text DOI URL

Kay, A., O'Byrne K., Corrigan, S., Callari, T., Slattery, D., Smyth, T., Turner, M., Bennet, D. Logan, J. and Cromie, S. , Development of an Observational Protocol for Reducing and Mitigating Workload and the Risk of Retained Foreign Objects, H-Workload 2018, the 2nd. international symposium on human mental workload, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 20-21 September, , edited by Chiara Leva, Luca Longo , 2018, pp154 - 176, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

Siobhán Corrigan, Alison Kay, Katie O'Byrne, Dubhfeasa Slattery, Sharon Sheehan, Nick McDonald, David Smyth, Ken Mealy and Sam Cromie, A Socio-Technical Exploration for Reducing & Mitigating the Risk of Retained Foreign Objects, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15, 2018, Journal Article, PUBLISHED TARA - Full Text DOI URL

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Author, Psycho-social outcomes and mechanisms of self-help groups in Ethiopia from 2016 to 2022, Trinity College Dublin, February, 2024, Notes: [Relevant to public policy regarding development funding], Report, PUBLISHED

Psycho-social outcomes and mechanisms of self-help groups in Ethiopia, Sam Cromie, Hannah Quinn-Gates, Paul Fagan, Mengistie Rebsso, Dublin, July, 2017, Notes: [Evaluates the psycho-social outcomes and mechanisms of self-help groups in Ethiopia thus informing policy on the directing of public funds towards the support of self-help groups. ], Report, PUBLISHED

Sam Cromie, Evangelos Demosthenous, Derval Cromie, 'Supersonic Aviation Videos', Dublin, Trinity Stamina Ltd, 2013, -, Film production, PRODUCED

Sam Cromie, Trinity Stamina Ltd, 2011, Campus Company, ACCEPTED

Sam Cromie, Derek Ross, Evangelos Demosthenous, Loukia Loukopoulos , 'A Whole Batch of Problems', STAMINA BPM Training Course, Dublin, 2011, -, Film production, PRODUCED

Derek Ross, Loukia Loukopopolous, Evangelos Demosthenous, Andreas, Hadjinicolaou, Siobhan Corrigan, Sam Cromie, STAMINA BPM Training Course, 2011, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

Baranzini, D & Cromie, S, Team systems in aviation maintenance: interaction and co-ordination across work teams, 25th EAAP Conference, , Warsaw, Poland, September 16-20th 20, 2002, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Foreign object retention in healthcare, aviation and other industries Psycho-social outcomes and mechanisms of self-help groups Just culture and culpability decision making Organisational, professional and national cultures and their relations to human factors The meaning and use of incident information Efficiency and effectiveness of training methodologies and processes Assessment methodologies for non-technical skills Models of human competence Integrated risk management The use of virtual and augmented reality for training, operations management, risk assessment and safety management

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Dr. Samuel Cromie

Dr. Samuel Cromie

Assistant Professor (Psychology)

ARAS AN PHIARSAIGH

sdcromie@tcd.ie

3531896 2426

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