Ergoscape Limited

Ergoscape Limited is a specialist ergonomics and human factors consultancy dedicated to improving safety, performance, and wellbeing across both human and animal healthcare. Founded by Fran Ives, a human factors specialist with more than two decades of experience, most of it within complex healthcare environments, Ergoscape brings depth, clarity, and practical insight to the realities of work as it is truly performed. With a career spanning NHS services, clinical research, hospital design, workforce wellbeing, and system improvement, Fran has built a reputation for translating human factors principles into meaningful, usable change. Her work recognises that safety and performance emerge from the interaction between people, tasks, tools, environments, and organisational pressures. Ergoscape exists to help organisations understand those interactions and design systems that support people rather than constrain them. While rooted in healthcare, Ergoscape also provides dedicated expertise to the veterinary and equine sectors, where human factors is rapidly gaining recognition as essential to safe, sustainable, and compassionate practice. From clinical workflow design to equipment usability, from team communication to musculoskeletal risk, Ergoscape helps veterinary teams navigate the same complexities faced in human healthcare, often with fewer resources and higher physical demands. Ergoscape’s approach is grounded in evidence, shaped by real‑world experience, and delivered with a commitment to collaboration. Whether supporting service redesign, incident learning, training, or strategic planning, the focus is always the same: creating environments where people and animals receive better, safer care, and where the professionals delivering that care can thrive. Ergoscape brings systems thinking, practical human factors, and a deep understanding of clinical work to organisations ready to improve how their systems function.