National PD Event: Psychosocial impacts of working from home in a COVID world
22/04/2021 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – NSW Branch invites you to join them for this National PD event. Dr Carlo Caponecchia will cover a psychosocial perspective on COVID-related changes to work, including our expectations of work, workplaces and schedules, and the challenges for the future of work design. Carlo is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales. He […]
Posted on byNational PD Event: Stepping towards Physical Activity
11/05/2021 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm – SA Branch invites you to join them for this National PD event. Title: Emergency nurses’ physical activity levels at work and during leisure time. Summary: This presentation will provide a summary of the Physical Activity in Emergency Departments (PACED) Study, which aimed to understand emergency nurses’ physical activity levels at work and during their leisure time. […]
Posted on byWorksafe WA and HFESA WA Journal Club – June 2017
19/06/2017 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – This month’s article: S. Eaves, D.E. Gyi and A.G.F. Gibb. Building healthy construction workers: Their Views on health, wellbeing and better workplace design. Applied Ergonomics 54 (2016) 10-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2015.11.004 Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003687015301058 Facilitator: Louise Coubrough, Scientific Officer/Inspector Human Factors/Ergonomics Team, WorkSafe WA If you have any difficulties accessing the article, a hard copy will be […]
Posted on byTranSIG: Whodunit series: 22nd August 2017
22/08/2017 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Come and work out Whodunit. We are going to look at a maritime mishap. Please email Airdrie and Anjum at transig@ergonomics.org.au by Friday 19th August and we will send out the reading material and the teleconference details. For this meeting only: we will meet at 5pm and end at 5:55pm EST so those in Sydney […]
Posted on byThe Joint CIEHF/ODAM 2020 Conference Goes Virtual, UK
28/04/2020 – 29/04/2020 @ 12:00 am – Originally planned as a face to face event, this annual conference has now moved to a virtual event. The virtual conference will consist of presentations and discussions over two days, on 28-29 April, in the form of interactive webinars, together with slideshows, videos and podcasts on a range of topics important to our discipline today. […]
Posted on byThe International Conference Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety – HEPS 2019
03/07/2019 – 05/07/2019 @ 12:00 am – The International Conference Healthcare Ergonomics and Patient Safety – HEPS 2019 will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from 3rd – 5th, July 2019, at Marriot Hotel. The topic of this 6th edition of HEPS is “Building Health and Social Care Systems for the Future: Demographic Changes, Digital Age and Human Factors”. HEPS conferences, endorsed by […]
Posted on bySIA Call For Papers – Deadline 7 Dec
30/11/2018 @ 9:00 am – 11:45 pm – The Conference The Safety Institute of Australia (SIA) has invited the HFESA to present an ergonomics stream as a part of their #SAFETYSCAPE Convention being held in Sydney between 22-23 May 2019 at the Sydney International Convention Centre. A recent Monkey survey was forwarded to HFESA members and we are coordinating a half day ergonomics […]
Posted on byOTA & HFESA SA Branch: Vibration in the workplace
15/02/2018 @ 5:15 pm – 8:15 pm – Proudly hosted by the Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Special Interest group in collaboration with the SA branch of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia WORKSHOP OVERVIEW Learning outcomes: Upon completion of the workshop participants will: have a greater understanding of the effects of hand, arm vibration and whole body vibration in the workplace. […]
Posted on byOptimising the Interaction Between Users and Automated Systems
22/05/2019 @ 8:45 am – 11:45 pm – Public Transport Victoria’s Human Factors Team and the Transport Special Interest Group at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia invite you to a morning of talks on the application of human factors methods and research to inform the integration of users and automated systems. Morning Talks Rail operations in Australia are on the […]
Posted on byHWWE 2017
08/12/2017 – 10/12/2017 @ 12:00 am – The Humanizing Work and Work Environment (HWWE) conference. The Humanizing Work and Work Environment (HWWE) conference, which was first held in 2001, is one of the important events in the field of ergonomics. It has served as a major forum for the exchange of ideas concerning the improvement in work and work environment. Out of […]
Posted on byHFESA WA Branch & SIA WA PD Event: Managing Violence and Aggression in the Health Care Workplace: Ensuring violence is not part of the job!
11/10/2017 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Join us for an insightful gathering on Wednesday 11th October 2017, to explore the topic: How about “ensuring violence is not just part of the job” Event Details Date: Wednesday 11th October 2017 Time: 5:00pm to 7:30pm (5:00pm Registration) Venue: Lecture Theatre , Hollywood Private Hospital, Monash Avenue, Needlands Cost: Complimentary * fingerfood and beverages provided Getting there: Parking is available […]
Posted on byHFESA WA & SIA event: Managing voilence and aggression in the healthcare workplace
26/07/2017 @ 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Join us for an insightful gathering on Wednesday 26 July 2017, to explore the topic of violence and aggression in the Healthcare Workplace. Occupational Violence and Aggression (OVA) is a growing hazard in the workplace, in particular the Healthcare and social service industry. OVA takes many forms and sometimes with fatal outcomes. Key to the […]
Posted on byHFESA NSW Branch and UTS Engineering Society: Career Panel Event
15/10/2020 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – HFESA NSW Branch and the UTS Engineering Society have partnered to host a Career Panel event with 2 HFE professionals on the panel, who will share about their career journeys and experience in the field. Participants in the session have the opportunity to ask the panellists questions during the event. Our panellists: Dr Wendy Elford: […]
Posted on byAustralian Aviation Psychology Association (AAvPA) Conference
07/11/2018 – 09/11/2018 @ 12:00 am – AAvPA is organising the 2018 conference with the theme ‘Maximising human performance for future systems’. The symposium will be held on 7 – 9 November, 2018, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Coogee Beach, Sydney. Due to the success of the 2016 symposium, we will again be combining with the 2018 PACDEFF conference, so delegates attending […]
Posted on byAnthropometry Applied to Wearable Product Design, Washington, US
28/10/2019 @ 9:00 am – 4:30 pm – You are invited to attend an exciting workshop on how to effectively design wearable products and improve the bottom-line. This is a one-time hands-on workshop with a maximum of 40 attendees. The instructors come from 4 continents, (Europe, North America, Africa, and Australia) and bring a global commerce perspective. Where: Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) […]
Posted on byAHFE 2017
17/07/2017 – 21/07/2017 @ 12:00 am – The 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2017) and the Affiliated Conferences will be held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA, July 17-21, 2017. The conference objective is to provide an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of scientific information on theoretical, generic, and applied areas of […]
Posted on by28th Australian Road Research Board International Conference
30/04/2018 – 02/05/2018 @ 12:00 am – The Australian Road Research Board (ARRB) warmly invites you to attend the 28th ARRB International Conference (ARRB 2018), which is to be held from 30 April to 2 May 2018 and the 8th Symposium on Pavement Surface Characteristics (SURF 2018), to be held from 2 May to 4 May 2018. Both events are to be […]
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