Events calendar

• BOHS REACH Update meeting , 11 Oct 2010 , Sheffield

  The British Occupational Hygiene Society will be holding an update meeting on the REACH legislation. This meeting is free to attend for both BOHS members and non-members so come along if REACH...

• IEHF Student Conference , 17 Nov 2010 , Warwickshire

  The aim of the conference is to provide students and newly qualified graduates with an understanding of the careers available in ergonomics and human factors. You will hear from presenters who...

IEHF events

• Train tour , 15 Sep 2010 , Derby

  An exclusive tour of a passenger train production plant is planned for September.

  Bombardier Transportation, Passenger Division have very kindly offered to host the next East Midlands...

• Driving SIG meeting - Simulation tools: even better than the real thing? , 22 Sep 2010 , Wokingham

  This anniversary meeting of the Driving Ergonomics Special Interest Group will take place on Wednesday the 22nd of September at 18:00 at TRL in Berkshire. The provisional programme includes a...

• IEHF Council meeting , 30 Sep 2010 , Loughborough

  This Council meeting will take place at the IEHF office in Loughborough. If any IEHF member has any issues they would like to raise, please let us know.

• Seven Minutes of Fame , 30 Sep 2010 , London

  Come and join our London & South East Regional Group event, sponsored by System Concepts, and share in six ergonomists' "7 minutes of fame".

  Each...

• South West Regional Group meeting , 6 Oct 2010 , Paignton, Devon

  Driving and eating will be the subject of two talks for the South West Regional Group on Wednesday 6th October 2010. Donald Anderson will talk about 'Musculoskeletal problems in taxi drivers' and...

• Control Room Design , 25 Oct 2010 - 26 Oct 2010 , Paris

  The conference will set out the forward vision and the practical requirement for future control room design. We have two keynote speakers:

  Robert S Simpson, Founder Director, Electrosonic...

• Southern England (BASHER) Regional Group Meeting , 10 Nov 2010 , Poole, Dorset

  Visit to Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). We have been allocated 25 places at a private presentation hosted by the RNLI for BASHER members. This is an afternoon visit and will comprise...

• IEHF Council meeting , 18 Nov 2010 , Loughborough

  This Council meeting will take place at the IEHF office in Loughborough. If any IEHF member has any issues they would like to raise, please let us know.

• Hearts and Minds Workshop , 24 Nov 2010 , Manchester

  Half day workshop on ‘Hearts and Minds: theory and ethos of the toolkit’, organised in partnership with the IEHF as part of the Human and Organisational Factors in the Oil, Gas and Chemical...

• Human & Organisational Factors in the Oil, Gas & Chemical Industries , 25 Nov 2010 - 26 Nov 2010 , Manchester

  After the first two very successful conferences in 2007 and 2008, we are again bringing you a line up of speakers that will ensure this event will be equally as successful. Already confirmed are...

• IEHF Council meeting , 24 Feb 2011 , Loughborough

  This Council meeting will take place at the IEHF office in Loughborough. If any IEHF member has any issues they would like to raise, please let us know.

• Ergonomics & Human Factors 2011 , 12 Apr 2011 - 14 Apr 2011 , Stoke Rochford

  This is the annual conference of the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors. This event will feature invited lecturers, plenary speakers and parallel sessions on a variety of ergonomics and...

Other UK events

• Using Human Factors for Engineering Success , 23 Sep 2010 , Austin Court Conference Centre, 80 Cambridge Street, Birmingham, B1 2NP

  This one-day seminar from IMechE looks to explore the techniques that can be used to improve human performance, interactions and promote successful engineering projects. Delegates will be provided...

• UX Book Fair , 23 Sep 2010 , London

  The UK UPA is holding a Book Fair as its September event – sponsored by Morgan Kaufmann Publishers. Following on from the very successful July event, we are holding another evening of short...

• System Safety: 5th IET International Conference 2010 , 18 Oct 2010 - 20 Oct 2010 , Manchester

  The IET International System Safety conference focuses on the design, development and assurance of safety systems. Sessions cover both sector-specific and cross-sector issues such as standards,...

• What is reliability? , 27 Oct 2010 , London

  This seminar, run by the Safety & Reliability Group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, will provide delegates an opportunity to understand what is meant by and the principles behind...

• Health & Safety at Work , 4 Nov 2010 , Birmingham

  The latest developments and practical solutions to building a safer working environment. Health and safety is once again high on the agenda with the new Government promising to review health and...

• Moving & Handling People, Managing Risk, Improving Practice , 3 Feb 2011 - 4 Feb 2011 , London

  Annual event in 3 parts organised by DLF - conference with plenary & concurrent sessions, practical problem-solving workshops considering paediatric & adult handling situations +...

Other worldwide events

• HFES Annual Meeting , 27 Sep 2010 - 1 Oct 2010 , San Francisco, USA

  54th Annual Meeting of the US Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.

• Ergonomics in and for Europe , 10 Oct 2010 - 12 Oct 2010 , Bruges, Belgium

  FEES (the Federation of European Ergonomics Societies) will be hosting an important conference in Bruges, Belgium on 10 10 10 (10-12th October 2010). This first European Fees Conference, '...

• HFES European Chapter conference , 13 Oct 2010 - 15 Oct 2010 , Berlin

  The theme of this conference is 'Human Centred Automation'. You can now submit an abstract on topics such as aviation, surface transportation, process control, medicine. We also invite abstracts...

• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia Annual Conference 2010 , 31 Oct 2010 - 2 Nov 2010 , Queensland, Australia

  Following the Sunday night welcome reception on the Novotel lagoon beach, the 2010 conference will open on Monday Nov 1 with a keynote presentation from Dr Jim Collins, Associate Director for...

• D-CIS Human Factors Event 2010 , 1 Nov 2010 - 3 Nov 2010 , Delft, The Netherlands

  The goal of the third D-CIS Human Factors Event 2010 is to bring together researchers, technology developers and end users with an interest in the human factors field to foster informal meetings...

• Commercial Driver Health and Wellness , 8 Nov 2010 - 10 Nov 2010 , Baltimore, USA

  The conference will feature current knowledge concerning the impacts of health factors on commercial driver job safety and performance; document what is known about the benefits and costs of...

• Preventing work-related musculoskeletal disorders , 18 Nov 2010 - 19 Nov 2010 , Nelson, New Zealand

  The New Zealand Ergonomics Society’s conference theme 'Preventing work-related musculoskeletal disorders - present and future challenges' is a focus shared by many ergonomists over recent decades...

• 1st SouthEast Asian Ergonomics Societies Conference , 14 Dec 2010 - 17 Dec 2010 , Cebu City, Philippines

  The theme of the conference is ‘Linking ergonomics and organisational strategy’, chosen to promote the value of ergonomics in the organisational context. The conference aims to illustrate that...

• Managing Fatigue in Transportation , 21 Mar 2011 - 24 Mar 2011 , Fremantle, Western Australia

  The conference organising committee has recognised the confluence of past presentations from the resource and health sectors by explicitly including them as core themes in the 2011 Conference:...

• Human factors in organisational design & management , 4 Apr 2011 - 6 Apr 2011 , Grahamstown, South Africa

  Changes in technologies, workforce values and cross‐cultural factors have created a need for a macroergonomics work systems approach that aims at sustainable and effective human performance. This...

• 19th World Congress on Occupational Health & Safety at Work , 11 Sep 2011 - 15 Sep 2011 , Istanbul

  The Congress will create opportunities for the participants to present and share experiences, explore new directions and debate topics as well as exchanging information with experts from across...