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The 3rd European Month of Ergonomics (adopted by the International Ergonomics Association in the form of a Global Ergonomics Month) gives a good reason for all of the national Ergonomics Societies seeking visibility and promoting ergonomics to the community.
The Communication & Promotion Committee of FEES invites and challenges all the European ergonomics societies to create activities during October.
- The base of activities will be on those that different societies have already planned.
- And perhaps we in different societies can also create something else, e.g.:
- In co-operation with the national CREE assessment committees produce and spread information about the CREE certification for both the employers and ergonomists as well as ergonomics students.
- Members of societies can write articles about ergonomics to the newsletters of enterprises and the societies can offer articles or a good back ground package of ergonomics for media in their own countries.
- Some of societies have their annual conference or meetings in October. Perhaps it is possible to get now more publicity for these events.
- Different kind of competitions can also rise interest in ergonomics.
- … and there can be a lot of other kind of activities, that do not need big time or financial resources.
To assist you in your activities, here you can download related material, listed in the following table:
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Description |
| Know your Ergonomics |
Download a presentation (in Microsoft Powerpoint format) prepared by the Finnish Ergonomics Society, which has been approved by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. |
| Ergonomics in Risk Assessment |
Presentation (in Microsoft Powerpoint format) prepared by the Communication & Promotion Committee of FEES. |
| What could be your personal input as an ergonomist? |
This year FEES has made a poster about how a single ergonomist, you and me, can take part of promoting ergonomics during the Month of Ergonomics (as a Microsoft Word file). |
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Please send information about planned activities to FEES web master Dietmar Gude. He will gather all the activities on the FESS calendar.
As event examples, currently we have information about the following activities of the national ergonomics societies:
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Event |
Target group |
| October 14th |
The Belgian Ergonomics Society (BES) organises a visit to Barco (Kuurne, Belgium): technics versus user comfort in the development of of new technologies, e.g. videowalls. For more information, please contact the BES Secretary. |
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| October 15th |
Please find the invitation (as a pdf file) for a happening of the Dutch Ergonomics Society (NVvE) on the occasion of the European Month for Ergonomics. There will be presentations for a broader audience around the topic "Fun and Functionality"; the topic for the PRS Ergonomics Award that will be presented that evening. This award is the only one on ergonomics in the Netherlands and Flemish Belgium. So it is also supported by the Belgian Ergonomics Society (BES). |
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| October 20th |
Visit to Microsoft (Bruxelles, Belgium)
- presentation of software applications and ergonomics
- overview of Microsoft helping devices for PC
- visit to the company: new world of working: new technologies, communication developments
- presentation on stress and concentration
Get more information about this excursion from the Secretary of the Belgian Ergonomics Society |
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| October 27th |
Seminar in Tampere organised by the Finnish Ergonomics Society:
- Event: Results through Ergonomics – Risks under control (in Finnish language)
- Date: 27.10.2009 at 9:00
- Duration: 1 day
- URL: www.ergonomiayhdistys.fi
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| October 30th |
Seminar about the ergonomic evaluation of the medical devices. The event has been organized by the Italian Ergonomics Society in collaboration with the Italian society of pharmasists, the center for clinical risk management of the Tuscany Region and the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence. You can download the flyer (as a pdf file).
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Ergonomists, pharmacy, physicians, nurses |
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