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Apr
16

Join the ILO’s Global Event: World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2025

Revolutionizing health and safety: the role of AI and digitalization at work The campaign will shed light on how new technologies are transforming OSH,  including through the automation of tasks, use of smart OSH tools and monitoring systems, extended reality and virtual reality and algorithmic management of work.  The digital transformation of work has led […]

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Apr
10

Adding Dimensions to Anthropometry; Transitions from 1D to 3D

Webinar: 12 May, 2025, at 15:00 UTC The Technical Committee on Anthropometry Webinar Series Duration: 60 mins, including time for discussion The introduction of full body 3D scanning in the early 2000s provided new directions for research into apparel sizing and fit. This talk will focus on apparel practice in body measurement, how it differs […]

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Mar
06

IEA Fellow Award applications open – Deadline 30 April 2025

The call for nominations for the 2025 IEA Fellow Awards is currently open. The IEA Fellow Award is given to recognize extraordinary or sustained, superior accomplishments of an individual. To be considered for the IEA Fellow Award, the candidate must have been a Full Member in good standing of a Federated or Affiliated Ergonomics Society […]

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Mar
06

Gender and Work TC special issue: call for contributions

The Gender and Work TC are planning to publish a special issue in the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics following the IEA Congress. The Gender and Work TC welcomes manuscripts on the theme ‘ergonomics, gender and social sustainability. Authors who did not present their study in the Gender and Work track at the last conference […]

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Feb
19

FPE 2025-2026 Impact Grants

The Foundation for Professional Ergonomics (FPE) is pleased to announce the availability of the FPE Impact Grants that aim to support small projects in the quest to develop professional ergonomics around the world. The funding preference will be given, but not limited to, applicants from developing countries (as defined by the United Nations) or proposals […]

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Jan
30

Informal Work in Europe: Human Factors Perspectives and Challenges

Webinar 25th February, 2025, at 15:00 UTC Informal Work Webinar Series This webinar, organized by the IEA Informal Work TC, begins with an overview of the situation of informal work in Europe and then delves into the specific case example of sex work/prostitution in Germany. The example highlights the difficulties of legally defining what is work […]

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Dec
19

Informal Work and Ergonomics: Experiences from Chile and Ecuador

Webinar on January 29, 2025, 16:00 UTC  (13:00 Chile, 11:00 Ecuador) This webinar organized by the IEA Informal Work TC in collaboration with the Universidad de Atacama and the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador will present an overview of the situation of informal work in Latin America with emphasis on Chile and Ecuador and then […]

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Aug
26

Council Meeting 2024

Just before the 22nd Triennial Congress of the IEA the annual general meeting of the IEA Council was held. The Council consists of representatives of the 55 federated members and the IEA elected officers. The Chairs of the standing committees gave reports on the activities of the hundreds of volunteers that make up the technical […]

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