News

The HFE Challenges for Automated and Autonomous Vehicle Design and Use

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Good Work Design is User Centred Design

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Organistional

Good Word Design Recordings

Good Work Design – the benefits for people – Kath Jones,Read More ►

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Good Work Design Long

Good Work Design in the post-COVID workplace – Press ReleaseRead More ►

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Road safety Submission and resources

Road safety Submission and resources Inquiry into Road Safety SubmissionRead More ►

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Principles and guidelines for human factors/ergonomics (HFE) design and management of work systems

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Translating Evidence into Practice – Human Factors Challenges and Design of Work

11/08/2022 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – NSW PD: Translating Evidence into Practice – Human Factors Challenges and Design of Work This interactive event will present the work of three PhD candidates whose research has been motivated by their professional practice and interest in translating evidence into practice. Each presenter will provide an overview of their research prior to inviting discussion and […]

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HFESA & AIHS EVENT: DESIGNING THE SYSTEM OF WORK

24/11/2021 @ 5:00 pm – 6:45 pm – SA Members! Join us for an evening of ‘Designing the System of Work’, focussing on the three factors of the physical tasks and environment, human factors integration and psychosocial factors. Presenter topics: David Nery – Human Factors Integration: Getting in Early! Heidi Turbill – Safety in Design – Focusing on the Gaps Dr. Valerie O’Keeffe – […]

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Healthy Safe and Effective Workplaces; a WA Branch smorgasbord

26/08/2021 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm – The WA Branch of HFESA is a hosting National PD event via Zoom. Ari Antonovsky, Kath Jones and Stephanie Black will present their recent or upcoming conference papers on the theme of “Healthy Safe and Effective Workplaces”. Join us via Zoom from 17:30 (AWST) / 19:30 (AEST) PROGRAM 17:30-17:55 Using mixed methods to strengthen connections […]

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Research

Inquiry into Road Safety – Parliament of Australia

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QLD Branch: Design Breakfast

20/04/2017 @ 7:00 am – 9:00 am – Design, design, design! Did you know you are a designer….? Welcome to your world! No matter what our job is, we are all designers in part, but are we using the right criteria to ensure success? When things go wrong, blaming end-users (front-line staff, drivers, controllers etc.) is commonplace; however investigations routinely point to flaws […]

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ACT Branch PD event: Work Design – Transformative Outcomes through Innovative Work Practices

04/05/2017 @ 9:15 am – 5:00 pm – Thursday and Friday May 4-5 2017 Work design is a crucial but neglected strategy for optimising health, for unleashing employee talent, and for creating agile and effective organisations. Two workshops: In the first workshop, Dr Kirsten Way will help you understand how to apply risk management to create mentally healthy work. In the second workshop, […]

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WA PD event: Backsafe Australia

15/06/2017 @ 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Who We Are Backsafe Australia is a family owned and operated business. We provide solutions for safer work environments. You can source any storage or material handling solutions from Backsafe Australia for your shop or factory floor. With a combined experience of more than twenty years, in the workshop equipment supply and design sector, we […]

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NSW Branch: Case study – Ergonomic design in a bakery with Claire Folland

04/07/2018 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – The topic is a case study using the WEAR database and Blender software for the Ergonomic design of a Work area in a Bakery. Claire Folland is the Managing Consultant for Alba Ergonomics and Green Ergonomics. Claire is a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) and ‘work health and safety’ specialist certified by the Human Factors and […]

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Design SIG PD Event: Designing with Cognitive Work Analysis: A transport ticketing case study

27/08/2020 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – You are invited to attend the Design SIG PD Event which will focus on a Human Factors Method – Cognitive Work Analysis. Cognitive work analysis has been applied in the design of numerous sociotechnical systems. The process used to translate analysis outputs into design concepts is not always clear. The Cognitive Work Analysis Design Toolkit […]

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Worksafe 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 […]

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The 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 […]

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Public Transport: Research and Design for Human Use

20/02/2019 @ 8:45 am – 11:45 pm – Public Transport Victoria 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 application of Human Factors methods and research to inform and optimise the user centred design of public transport systems. As demand for Public Transport increases year […]

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2nd International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design: Future Trends and Applications (IHSED 2019), Germany

16/09/2019 – 18/09/2019 @ 12:00 am – IHSED 2019  Conference aims to provide a global forum for presenting and discussing novel design and systems engineering approaches, tools, methodologies, techniques, and solutions for integrating people, concepts, trends and applications in all areas of human endeavor in industry, economy, government, and education, including but not limited to energy, transportation, urbanization and infrastructure development, digital manufacturing, […]

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Cognitive

Dynamic positioning control system design: Extract

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