Events calendar

• 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...

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.

• Control Room Design , 25 Oct 2010 - 26 Oct 2010 , Eurosites Republique, 8 Bis rue de la Fontaine au roi, 75011 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,...

• 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

• 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...

Other worldwide events

• Putting users first: the importance of human-centred design in the development of mobile applications and services , 24 Aug 2010 , Delft, The Netherlands

  Mobile technology has changed and continues to change and shape our lives from both a social and economic perspective. Every day as we travel through our streets we see numerous examples of people...

• Prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders , 29 Aug 2010 - 2 Sep 2010 , Angers, France

  PREMUS 2010 will highlight best current research on the prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Keynotes, symposia, round tables, plenary sessions and posters will focus on various...

• NES2010 , 6 Sep 2010 - 8 Sep 2010 , Stavanger, Norway

  The conference is entitled 'Proactive Ergonomics: Implementation of ergonomics in the planning of jobs tasks, systems and environments.'

  There are three main themes where there is a...

• 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...

• 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...