Safety & Health

Background

Experts, specialists and practitioners in Ergonomics & Human Factors as well as in Occupational Safety and Health must invent, develop, study and apply new solutions to improve safety, health, well-being and productivity in work systems. While Ergonomics & Human Factors are eternally essential elements of Occupational Safety and Health, the challenges significantly transform with technological development.

Under current challenges in the Artificial Intelligence-powered virtual digital era, the Safety and Health Technical Committee of the International Ergonomics Association advocates the solutions of the dynamic human-task fit in the work setting, including process and organisational innovations, automation, instrumentations, software and mobile applications.

In addition, we are looking for new solutions to long-standing problems in the domain of safety and health, which are more or less permanently present in many companies around the world.
 

Officers

 

Prof. Aleksandar Zunjic, Chair
President of the Ergonomics Society of Serbia (EES)
Email: azunjic@mas.bg.ac.rs
 

Prof. Dr. Panagiotis V. Tsaklis, Secretary

Biomechanics and ergonomics Dept Phys Edu and Sport Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece and Dept of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

 

 

Executive Members

  • habil.Gyula Szabó
  • Dr Luke A. Fiorini
  • PhD Peter Nickel
  • DI Michael Wichtl
  • PhD Raluca Iordache

Interested people are very welcome.

 

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Objectives

  1. To collect existing and create new ergonomic theory and methodology that can be applied in the Safety and Health domain.
  2. To document theories and methods in the area of Safety and Health and to disseminate information for ergonomic design and assessment purposes.
  3. To initiate and coordinate research and practices in the area of Safety and Health.
  4. To find out technical and other solutions applicable in the area of Safety and Health.
  5. To participate in and organise collaborative events for researchers and practitioners in academia and industry to share Safety and Health knowledge and solutions.

 

Activities

  • Monthly meetings – usually in the fourth week of a month at 4 PM CET
  • We work with institutional partners with the same interests to accomplish defined project objectives, e.g., ISSA, ISO
  • We organise engaging webinars on leading-edge case studies for the broad public to promote the added value of Ergonomics and Human Factors in workplaces.
  • We organise sessions and a track at IEA triennial conferences and co-organise other conferences
  • Long term, we organise conferences and publish a journal
  • Improving the recognition of Ergonomics/HFE profession as an OSH specialisation.

For more information about our strategic and action plan, you can find it here Strategic and action plan of the Safety and Health TC (Download pdf)
 

Working groups

Our TC has three working groups (WG). The names of these working groups, their leaders, and members are:
 
Working group 1 – Ergonomic risk factors WG

Leader: Prof. Aleksandar Zunjic

Members: Dr. habil. Szabó Gyula, Dr Luke A. Fiorini, Harald A. Kviecien, PhD Raluca Maria Iordache, Prof. Panagiotis V. Tsaklis, Dr Olivier LHOSPITAL, PhD, Michael Dubos

Result:  NEW COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONNAIRE FOR ERGONOMIC RISK FACTORS IDENTIFICATION TO HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK – ERIQAZ (Download pdf)
 
Working group 2 – WG for the development of a safety and health educational program for ergonomists

Leader: Prof. Aleksandar Zunjic

Members: Dr. habil. Szabó Gyula, Dr Luke A. Fiorini, Harald A. Kviecien, Prof. Panagiotis V. Tsaklis
 
Working group 3 – WG for standardization in the area of ergonomics, health and safety

Leader: Era Podar

Members: Dr. habil. Szabó Gyula, PhD Peter Nickel, Linda Sagmeister, Harald A. Kviecien, Gizem Hüsre Akalp, Elena Boatca,  Prof. Carlo Caponecchia
 

Latest Reports

2023