IEA webinar: 16 July, 2026, at 15:00 UTC The Technical Committee on Anthropometry Webinar Series Duration: 60 mins, including time for discussion This presentation provides a retrospective overview of the evolution of anthropometry in design engineering over the past five decades. Beginning with the speaker’s experience learning traditional one-dimensional (1D) anthropometry from body dimension tables […]
Santiago de Cali, Colombia, 9 – 11 November 2026 The ILO estimates that 60% of workers in the world work without a formal employment contract; and the health, safety and wellbeing of these workers are largely ignored by occupational health and safety systems, worker protection laws and even scientific research. To increase awareness about and […]
Human Factors, AI and Monitoring in Ergonomics and Safety The 37th Summer University on Ergonomics will take place in Budapest, at Óbuda University, between 1–3 July 2026. This year’s Summer University focuses on the changing role of ergonomics and human factors in the age of artificial intelligence, human monitoring, digital technologies, safety science and workplace […]
IEA Webinar: June 8, 3 pm UTC The Technical Committee on Musculoskeletal Disorders Webinar Series Duration: 60 minutes, including time for discussion. As organizations accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies to prevent musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), safety and operations leaders are often driving these investments. However, frontline worker perspectives—critical to adoption, sustained use, and measurable impact—are […]
IEA Webinar: 12th May (Tuesday), 2026, at 13.00 UTC/GMT (9.00 EDT); 22.00 JST This webinar is hosted by IEA The Technical Committee on Anthropometry Users of human body dimension data often assume that all measurements are obtained using comparable methods. Until the adoption of 3D body scanners in anthropometric surveys, measurement protocols were largely standardized […]
IEA Webinar: 28 May 2026, 14:00 UTC Informal Work Webinar Series This webinar is organized by the IEA Informal Work Technical Committee in collaboration with Workplace Health Without Borders (WHWB). It draws on recent research in the vanilla supply chain in Madagascar where workers operate largely under informal arrangements. We will demonstrate how risk assessments […]
The 15th International Symposium on Human Factors/Ergonomics in Organizational Design and Management (ODAM) sponsored by the IEA Organizational Design and Management Technical Committee and the HFES Macroergonomics Technical Group will take place from June 8–10, 2026, at the University of Connecticut, Storrs campus. The conference theme is “Innovating for the Future: Human-Centered Organizational Design in the […]
International symposium/conference on digital human modelling, focusing on the latest research findings and industrial applications of Digital Human Models. For more details please visit the conference website: https://dhm2026.fs.um.si/
