The 2nd International Conference on ERGONOMICS – CREATIVITY AND INNOVATIVITY, GOOD PRACTICE was held in Vilnius, Lithuania, 20 of April, 2018.

The 2018 council meeting of the Federation of the European Ergonomics Societies (FEES) will be held in Florence 26^th August 2018 in conjonction with the IEA Triennal Conference on the issue „Creativity in practice“.

FEES proposes the member societies to implement the IEA “future of work project in Europe, which means:

From February 21st to 23rd, 2018, about 350 scientists and business representatives met at the 64th Spring Conference of the GfA Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft (Labor Science Corporation).

The conference on ERGONOMICS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES SOCIAL AND OCCUPATIONAL ACTIVATION was held Lodz, Poland, November 21 – 22, 2017.

The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) is recruiting an ergonomist.

The 14th International Symposium on Management (SIM 2017) took place in Timisoara (Romania) between 27-28 October 2017 and ran under the topic of “Challenges and Innovation in Management and Entrepreneurship.” The SIM conference takes place every two years and is organized jointly by Timisoara’s two major universities, the Politehnica University of Timisoara and the West Uni

On 4th November, Lisbon had hosted the first International Forum on Occupational Health.

The events’ objectives was:

At the opening of the 52nd SELF Congress held in Toulouse (France) took place in a plenary session a round table on the issue : «ergonomics beyond our borders : which lessons for our development ?» where were presented : a reflection on the French language ergonomics peculiarities (Pierre Falzon) with the specificity of the field studies, the synthesis of the SWOT enquiry on the development of ergonomics in Europe and beyond (Sylvain Leduc – results coming soon on the FEES website) which shows the remaining discrepancy between ergonomic knowledge and its implementation in the systems desig

The field of practice of professional ergonomists is very wide and covers all aspects having to do with the health, wellbeing and productivity of people at work. Some ergonomic interventions concentrate on designing workplaces so that the work can be done comfortably and safely over a long period of time.