Consultants and Testifying Experts
Forensic Human Factors specializes in human factors and also offers consulting and expert testimony in many other areas that include:
Accident reconstruction, Architect – premises liability, Cell phone/infotainment systems, Construction defects, Machine guarding, Meteorology, OSHA / workplace injuries, Product design / evaluation
Architect
Infotainment systems
Construction
Machine Guarding
Meteorology
Products
Accident
Reconstruction
Forensic
Animation
About Dr. Kevin Rider
Owner / Human Factors Consultant
Kevin A. Rider (PhD, PE, CPE) is a human factors consultant and owner of Forensic Human Factors, LLC, which provides expert investigations, reports and testimony for personal injury cases – plaintiff or defense. Dr. Rider investigates how people interact with other people, products and environments in predictable ways, and applying this understanding to the design of effective, efficient and safe products, services and systems. He has served as an expert in personal injury cases throughout the United States.
Dr. Rider's Expertise Include:
– Motor vehicle and pedestrian collisions, including trucks, trains and motor/bicycles
– Illumination, nighttime visibility, and pedestrian conspicuity
– DUI/DWI/OWI, where driver actions may also be the result of poorly designed/maintained roads and signs
– The design and foreseeable use of products, and the adequacy of their warnings and instructions
– The design and maintenance of safe civil and occupational environments
– Premises liability, and slips, trips and falls
– Workplace and construction safety
Dr. Rider is a Professional Engineer (PE), a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE), and has served as a human factors consultant since 1999, including five years as a professor at West Virginia University. He has presented his peer-reviewed work at professional conferences, nationally and abroad, and is active in several professional organizations.
Dr. Rider attended the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, which conferred his Bachelor and Master degrees in Industrial Engineering. He then received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Rider’s research includes human performance under stress, driver behavior and distraction, the performance of in-vehicle tasks, pedestrian behaviors, and manual material handling tasks. He has demonstrated abilities to explain complex scenarios in easily understood ways, both in the classroom and the courtroom.
“There’s a Human Factor in every case.”