web: http://www.irishergonomics.com/
President & IEA Council Member.
Associate Prof. Marie Ward, Researcher, School of Medicine Trinit College Dublin Ireland.
Tel +353 61 234249. Emai: Marie.ward@tcd.ie
Secretary:
Estrada Lugo Diego
Tel 00 353 1 896 2916. Email: Diego.EstradaLugo@ukaea.uk
Active FEES membership
History of IES
An informal group was formed in October 1984 and in March 1985 it was accepted as a Regional Group of the Ergonomics Society (U.K.). The Group ran seminars once or twice per year and was involved from 1985 onwards in the development of the ideas and processes for a “European Ergonomist”. The aim was to provide the mechanism for establishing and controlling a recognised professional level for Ergonomists throughout Europe, in order to provide mobility between member states and to protect the public from those who are unqualified and/or not competent. The standards were agreed in 1992 and provided the mechanism for the Irish Ergonomics Group to become a fully Irish society.
A constitution was approved at an AGM in March 1993 and the Irish Ergonomics Society was formally launched on 5th March 1994 when the first Annual Conference was held at the University of Limerick. The Society was admitted to the International Ergonomics Association as an Affiliated Organisation at its 12th Triennial Congress in Toronto on 14th August 1994. This makes it the officially recognised society for Ergonomics in Ireland. The IES became a Federated Member of the IEA (that means full voting rights etc.) at the IEA Council Meeting in August 1995.
The Society also represents Ireland on the Council of the Centre for the Registration of European Ergonomists (CREE) which was incorporated legally in the Netherlands on 1st October 1995 and which administers the registration process. In June 1998 five applicants from Ireland were accepted as European Ergonomists.
Membership of the Irish Ergonomics Society is available to people with a degree (or equivalent) in the Ergonomics area, or some other degree with either the equivalent of two years of full-time work in Ergonomics or have published two scientific papers in Ergonomics. Those who do not meet these requirements but are interested in Ergonomics can join as Associates. Appropriate postgraduate courses are on offer at the University of Limerick (part-time) and at University College Galway (full-time) and at Queen’s University of Belfast (full-time).
Currently total membership stands at about 90 but is growing all the time as the Society becomes better known. The main activity is the Annual Conference supplemented by a regular newsletter with information collated from all around the world. The Society also processes applications for European Ergonomist on behalf of CREE and has occasional input to general matters of Ergonomics e.g. when the term is used incorrectly in the media, or when requested to advise on standards such as in regulations.
- The annual Conference for the Irish Human factors and Ergonomics society this year will run on line jointly with WORKLOAD 2021 (as previsouly done in 2017). The theme of the conference is “Human Factors in Evolving Socio Technical Systems“. It will be on the morning of the 24th of November and continue into the ealry […] The post Annual conference 2021 24th November 2021, 9.30 – 14:45 appeared first on IHFES.