If you have ideas for future PD Events or want to present a workshop, please contact your Branch PD Representative or email the HFESA PD Coordinator - pdofficer@ergonomics.org.au
HFESA Members say they want Professional Development in the following areas:
Physical Ergonomics
- Manual tasks: new National Standard, different risk assessment tools, best practice guidelines, maximising the benefits of trolleys & assistive devices and skills training
- Value of movement exercises in office based work
Cognitive Ergonomics
- Work-related stress
- Human reliability, errors, resilience
- Work-related fatigue in high risk industries eg. health and transport
- Understanding human behaviours and safety culture
- Human error analysis and quantifying error rates
- Cognitive safety engineering
- Human Computer Interaction 101
- Mental fatigue in relation to computer use
Organisational Ergonomics
- Organisational change, work design & employee participation
- Psychosocial impact on MSDS & musculoskeletal injury mechanisms
- Participative ergonomics
- Ergonomic quality in design: IEA EQuID Project\
- Control room design & high reliability organisations
- Ageing workforce and Generation Y factors & opportunities for ergonomics
- Office based ergonomics & workstation design
Other
- Practical application of ergonomic practice (eg. risk assessment, incident investigation, safety culture/behaviour, implementing ergonomics programmes)
- Evaluation methods: noise, thermal comfort, using force gauges & implications of force measurements
- WorkSafe Award recipients
- How to market ergonomics to employers
- Forensic /legal /expert witness workshop
- Industrial design /product design
- Vehicle ergonomics & ergonomics of automobile manufacture
- Use of computer simulators for HF research
- Non-technical skills: presentation skills, talking to the media, how to develop a business case
- Whatever ‘hot topics’ are being discussed on AusErgo
HFESA Members say they want the following type of Professional Development opportunities:
- Practical applications of ergonomics for practitioners
- More involvement /better links with other professions: engineers, designers, architects, psychologists, hygienists, occupational physicians
- Inter-disciplinary events with CHISIG
- Student presentations
- CPEs & Fellows sharing their practical knowledge & skills
- Knowledge Through Sharing type seminar
- Sharing case studies – open to feedback in supportive environment, reflective practice, problem solving
- Show & tell of ergonomic interventions & solutions
- National Ergo Week like WorkSafe Week
- Road show of mini-workshops
- Access for regional members: video, audio, podcast, on-line delivery
This information was collated from 2008 and 2009 PD Programme Feedback Forms, PD Committee Members, Branch Committee Members, 2007 Conference attendees, and the 2006 Member Survey
Domains of specialisation taken from IEA