Getting down to Business
A new guide aimed at helping industry leaders boost their organisations through adopting a human factors approach has been published by the International Ergonomics Association and its federated member society, the Charted Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors of the United Kingdom. Giving Your Business the Human Factors Edge contains real-life examples of how the discipline […]
Webinar Series on the Future of Work
The goal of the Future of Work on-line webinar series is to bring you perspectives on the envisaged challenges arising from expected changes in the world of work for HFE from around the world. The first on-line webinar in this series aims to discuss the future of work from an Australasian viewpoint. The presenters recaped […]
Upcoming Webinar on Resilience Engineering
The IEA – Resilience Engineering Technical Committee and the Resilience Engineering Association offer this webinar on leading research and development of practical applications in how to create resilience in complex systems on September 16th, 2022 from 12MD to 1PM UTC. The event allows participants to learn from other domains seeking to engineer resilience into their […]
IEA Webinar: Why you should consider sex/gender in your MSD prevention efforts
This webinar of 90 minutes was offered jointly by the IEA Technical Committees on Musculoskeletal Disorders and Gender and Work on Thursday June 16th at 15:00 UTC. Four leading researchers in this area summarised the research on why it is important to consider sex/gender in MSD prevention and discuss how it should be done. This […]
Fireside Chat Webinar
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of the USA is one of the biggest members of the IEA. We co-hosted a webinar where the presidents of both organisations chatted with each other about what is HFE, what it offers in terms of career prospects and its added value to customers. They also discussed the current […]
IEA Webinar on Exoskeletons
This webinar included presentations by researchers and a designer-manufacturer. It gives an overview of the current application of exoskeletons in rehabilitation and industrial labor. The presentations are followed by a short panel discussion where the advantages and limitations will be discussed, particularly regarding the software interfaces used to wirelessly calibrate the hardware. One researcher noted […]
IEA Core Competencies translated into Persian
A group of Master and PhD students in ergonomics in Iran who are trying to promote the field in their country have translated the IEA Core Competencies in HFE into Persian. The group all work on the Ergonomics Student Magazine which is published by graduate students from several Iranian universities with HFE programs. Our thanks […]
New IEA Office Administrator
The IEA officers are pleased to announce that, following the retirement last year of the very capable and popular office administrator, Lynn Strother, a new person has been appointed to the position. Dr Aleksandra Gamper from St. Petersburg in Russia has joined the IEA team. Aleksandra has office experience with an international professional organisation, similar […]
