John W. Senders

John W. Senders (1920 – Feb 12, 2019 ) was an American professor of industrial engineering and psychology who did research on safety and human error. He founded Canada's Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), and organized the first conference on human error, which came to be known as Clambake I.

Career In 1959, Senders was a lecturer in the department of mechanical engineering at the University of Minnesota.

Senders founded Canada's Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), and received an award from ISMP in 2001.

In 2011, Senders won an Ig Nobel Prize in the field of public safety for conducting experiments driving a car while intermittently blindfolded.

In addition to Senders, Chrichton-Harris, and Moray, participants at the clambake conferences included Jens Rasmussen, Daniel Kahneman, Don Norman, James Reason, Alan Swain, Thomas Sheridan, Elizabeth Loftus, Erik Hollnagel, David Woods, Ward Edwards, Brian Gaines, Marcel Kinsbourne, Lawrence Stark, Anne Treisman, Laurence Young, and Dune McRuer.