Version 1.3 brings professional compliance workflows, a new 3D rendering engine, and major interface refinements across ErgoSphere. Standards-aligned compliance wizards now hand practitioners a ready-to-complete Completion Report pre-filled with their tool data, and every method tool now exports to a fully editable Word document - the legacy PDF output has been retired. ErgoDesign and ErgoGlare move onto a new AB4D + SkiaSharp engine for true 3D modelling; ErgoBow, ErgoSense, and the Project Management and Compliance modules are redesigned; and a new shell-owned header reclaims the screen space that back buttons and session names used to waste. Add a new IWS workload tool, Industry Profile Lens, Classic theme, and the start of automated UI testing, and 1.3 is one of the platform's broadest releases yet.
Two new compliance-document wizards join the platform. The Early Human Factors Analysis (EHFA) and Human Factors Integration Plan (HFIP) wizards guide assessors through structured, standards-aligned documentation mapped to AS RISSB 7470, IOGP 454 and DI-HFAC-81742A. Most significantly, each wizard hands the practitioner a ready-to-complete skeleton Completion Report - the structure, headings and standard wording already in place and pre-filled with the relevant tool output data from across their project - so they finish a defensible compliance document rather than starting from a blank page. Reports export to fully formatted Word documents with traceable evidence, snapshot-bound sign-off signatures, and a five-category assurance gap register that surfaces missing analysis, incomplete analysis, and stale or unsigned approvals.
A new cognitive-workload tool built on the Integrated Workload Scale (IWS), the nine-point equal-appearing-interval scale developed for, and widely used in, the rail industry for real-time field and simulator rating. IWS reuses ErgoSphere's proven sampling engine to capture timestamped ratings with dual prompt-and-response timestamps, an indicative score-over-time trace, and SME timeline annotation for diagnosticity. It complements the existing ATWIT tool with a faster, lower-burden rating method.
A new personalisation layer lets each user choose their industry - Oil & Gas, Aerospace, Construction, Healthcare, Rail, Road Transport or Advanced Practitioner - and see a curated home page that leads with the tools most relevant to their domain. Practitioners can build a custom workspace by pinning additional tools from the full registry, with per-profile preferences persisted across projects.
ErgoBow has been substantially upgraded around a domain-driven hazard model. Bowtie studies can now be created directly from Major Accident Hazard records; a new Risk Matrix view plots inherent and residual risk on a colour-banded 5×5 grid; an Assurance view surfaces critical-task status and barrier verification at a glance; and a customisable Master Data layer lets teams tailor threat types, barrier classifications, severity scales and verification methods. A unified case navigator brings Sites, MAH records and assurance data into a single browser, alongside new severity iconography, persisted layouts and colour-correct PDF reporting.
ErgoDesign and ErgoGlare now run on a new rendering stack built on the AB4D engine over SkiaSharp. This is a major technical upgrade that brings true 3D modelling to the platform, replacing the previous approach with hardware-accelerated, GPU-friendly rendering. It is the foundation that makes ErgoGlare's real Move/Rotate/Scale manipulators and ErgoDesign's rebuilt workspace possible, and sets the platform up for richer spatial assessment in future releases.
Three usability enhancements extend ErgoGlare's scene control. Real Move, Rotate and Scale manipulators now commit transforms back to the model with two-way panel binding; the sun-path trail visual shows both single-day solar arcs and full annual analemma envelopes with solstice and equinox highlights; and the indoor plan view gains smooth mouse-driven pan and zoom following standard CAD conventions.
ErgoDesign's interface has been redesigned around a compact ribbon toolbar that reorganises every command into eleven clear groups - History, Edit, Transform, Tools, ERP, Link, Snap, Selection Sets, View, Overlays and Analysis. New capabilities including Visual Acuity analysis and Compliance Check are surfaced alongside an icon-driven tabstrip, a cleaner workspace layout with crisp dividers, and theming repaired consistently across every theme.
The ErgoSense interface has been rebuilt end-to-end across five clear stages - Setup, Capture, Review, Analysis and Report - each with a native implementation while preserving the existing measurement backbone. Assessors move smoothly from capture configuration through real-time data collection, annotation and quality checking, metric derivation and severity assessment, to a risk summary highlighting findings and the highest-risk body regions.
A new shell-owned header standardises the experience across every tool, carrying back navigation, an editable session title and a Quick Access Toolbar with Save, Undo and Redo. Crucially, it reclaims screen real estate: the back button and session name previously consumed around 15% of every page's vertical space, and are now compacted into the shell - handing that room back to the assessment itself. The session-name flyout shows the parent project path and supports inline rename, establishing one consistent command pattern throughout the application.
A third theme - Classic - joins Charlie (dark) and Harry (light), offering a clean, neutral light interface for environments where the brighter accent of Harry is not preferred. Classic rides the shared light-theme infrastructure so every UI element behaves consistently while delivering a distinctly different aesthetic.
A master HTA Word report template introduces token-based placeholders for hierarchical task definitions, embedded diagrams and analyst narrative, establishing the conventions for diagram embedding and chart export. Tool reports can now auto-populate structured, professionally formatted output from existing assessment data and generated artefacts.
Every method tool now exports to a fully formatted, editable Word document, and the legacy PDF output has been retired. The move gives practitioners a report they can take ownership of - refine the wording, add project context, drop in their own evidence and brand it - rather than a locked, fixed-layout PDF. It also underpins the new compliance Completion Reports, where tool output flows straight into an editable skeleton document.
The Project Management and Compliance modules have both been redesigned. The reworked layouts give programme managers a clearer view of project structure, evidence and review status, tie cleanly into the new shell header and theming, and feed the standards-aligned compliance wizards and Completion Reports - bringing project administration into line with the rest of the refreshed platform.
Closed a data-integrity gap where a bowtie could be saved with barriers not fully anchored to their hazards and consequences. All save paths now run a validation gate that ensures every barrier is properly anchored, preventing incomplete or orphaned barrier data.
Repaired theme-data inconsistencies in ErgoDesign that could produce navy-on-navy or white-on-white text in the light themes. A page-scoped token dictionary now backs every panel and style, ensuring consistent, legible theming across Charlie, Harry and Classic.
Strengthened the link between ErgoBow barriers and Safety-Critical Task Analysis by formalising barrier-state capture and the human-factors issue creation pathway, ensuring SCTA workflows stay properly grounded in their source hazard-consequence pairs.
The new compliance wizards ship with comprehensive audit trails: state binding via content hashing, sign-off records tied to a specific document snapshot, and automatic detection of stale or missing approvals. The five-category gap register surfaces every outstanding assurance gap to the project team.
Every new persisted structure introduced this release - barrier Activities, Risk Matrix inherent/residual ratings and customisable Master Data lookups - is additive, nullable and isolated by project, so existing assessments continue to open cleanly with no migration required.
Every major workstream passed independent verification and sign-off before release, confirming no crashes, contract violations or blocking integration issues across the application and platform services.
This release begins a new front-end UI test suite that exercises tools through their actual interface before shipping. Coverage is partial today and growing release on release, but it establishes automated user-interface testing as a standard pre-release gate alongside the existing unit and integration tests.