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Version 1.3.0.0
19 June 2026 Latest Major Release

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.

New Tools
  • Compliance Wizards - EHFA & HFIP

    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.

  • IWS - Integrated Workload Scale

    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.

  • Industry Profile Lens & Curated Workspaces

    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.

Major Enhancements
  • ErgoBow - Risk Platform Upgrade

    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.

  • New 3D Rendering Engine - AB4D & SkiaSharp

    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.

  • ErgoGlare - Viewport & Sun-Path Enhancements

    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 - Ribbon & Interface Rebuild

    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.

  • ErgoSense - Complete Redesign

    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.

  • Unified Tool Header & Quick Access Toolbar

    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.

  • Classic Theme

    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.

  • HTA Report Template & Chart Export

    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.

  • Word Export Across Every Method Tool

    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.

  • Project Management & Compliance Modules Redesigned

    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.

Resolved Issues
  • ErgoBow - Barrier Validation & Save Integrity

    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.

  • ErgoDesign - Theme Integrity Across All Themes

    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.

  • SCTA - Bowtie Linkage Hardening

    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.

Quality & Stability
  • Compliance Audit Trails

    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.

  • Backward-Compatible Persistence

    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.

  • Independent Verification Gates

    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.

  • Automated UI Testing Introduced

    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.