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Safety & Health

Click here for the 2007-2008 Safety & Health Report

Chair

Professor Kwan Suk Lee
Hongik University
Department of Industrial Engineering
72-1, Sansu-dong, Mapo-gu
Seoul 121-719 Korea
Phone: 82-2-320-1661
Fax: 82-2-333-8725
Email kslee@wow.hongik.ac.kr

Objectives

1. To document theories and methods in Safety and Health and to disseminate information for ergonomic design purpose.
   
2. To coordinate research and practices in Safety and Health
   
3. To participate in and/or organize collaborative events, such as Pan Pacific Conference on Occupational Safety and Health for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to share solutions in Safety and Health.

Structure

To implement above objectives, this TC creates two Working Groups:

WG1 – Theories, Methods and Technologies

• Prof. Sheng Wang, Peking University, China
• Dr. Sung Kang, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Korea
• Prof. Koya Kishida, Takasaki City Univ., Japan
• Prof. Akihiko Seo, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
• Prof. Fereydoun Aghazadeh, Louisiana State University, U.S.A.

The group is responsible for coordinating work that relates to theory and tool development in ergonomic design.

WG2 – Standards and Practice in Design of Workplaces in Asia

• Prof. Suebsak Nanthavanij, Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology, Thammasat University, Thailand
• Prof. Eric Wang, National Tsing Hua University, ROC
• Isabella Steffan, Arch-Eur/Ergonomics Milano, Italy
• Rachel Corry, Serco Assurance, Thomson House, England
• Prof. Kwan Lee, Hongik Univ., Korea

The group is responsible for specifying guidelines for interface design.

Action Plan

Activities	Description	Responsible	Milestone/ Timeline	Deliverable/Timeline
1. Literature review	Document theories, methods in safety and health	WG1	Collection of 30 papers - Dec. 2007	Booklet - June 2008
2. Standards	Review of current Asian standards for Safety and Health	WG2	Principles for Asian Safety and Health - Dec 2008	Guidelines for ISO consideration - March 2009
3. Symposium and Panel	Presentation of research papers and panel discussion on common theme	All	5 papers and 1 panel with 5 panelists	2 sessions on Effective Ergonomics at the IEA Congress 2009