GfA Autumn Conference in Vienna 2013

There was a GfA Autumn Conference in Vienna, 19th-20th September 2013.

The Austrian Workers Compensation Board, Department for prevention organized this year the annual autumn conference of the German Ergonomics Society (GfA).

At this conference contrtibutions from ergonomics, human factors, prevention but also out of the operational praxis were discussed.

The main topics were

  • managment approaches in prevention and the design of work systems
  • projects for the implementations in enterprises and in public
  • safety and health managementsystems
  • role and contribution of ergonomics and the design of worksystems in prevention
  • considerations of megatrends such as demographic changes and changes in the corporale culture