The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) published its overview report of the second European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER-2), for which almost 50,000 establishments from 36 European countries were interviewed in 2014. The main topics covered are the management of occupational safety and health (OSH) in general, the management of psychosocial risks in particular and the participation of workers in OSH.
The 48th meeting of CREE was held in Riga, Latvia November 2015.
After the meeting there is 468 registered ergonomists from 22 countries.
A new national assessment board has been established in Latvia: the president is Henrijs Kalkis, assessors are Zenija Roja, Ricards Balnass, secretary Liene Stoka.
26th of November, 2015 Riga, Latvia
Conference is organized in the framework of University of Latvia master study programme “Work Environment protection and expertise” in collaboration with Latvian Ergonomics Society
15-18 June 2016 Zadar, Croatia
This seminary was held in Sevilla (Spain), on November 27th, 2014. FEES’ Presentation (Sylvain Leduc) was focused to expose the first results about an analysis on the situation of the ergonomists in Europe.
The Federation of European Ergonomics Societies welcomes the new board of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA). We thank all the effort made by the outgoing presidency, especially Eric Min-Yang Wang past president.
The new board elected August 2015 is:
Representatives of ETUI and FEES have met in March 2015 with the aim to set up a co-operation between FEES and ETUI in the field of the ergonomic design and use of machines.
A number of research institutes in Australia and New Zealand are willing to extend their hospitality to visiting ergonomists who are in the area for the IEA 2015 conference.
Approaching the IEA2018 Congress the principal aim was starting a debate among professionals of different fields about the more effective way to develop creativity in practice, through the use of ergonomics. The main challenges of this workshop were to question the participants about: