DRAFT PROGRAM: HFESA08: Sustainable
Performance - The Human Factor, Ergonomics and the Work Environment |
| Please note that this program is
subject to change. Updated:
11-Nov-2008
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| SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY |
| SUNDAY |
| 3.30pm |
Registration opens |
| 6.00pm |
Welcome reception |
| MONDAY |
| 8.15am |
Registration |
| 9.00am |
Keynote address
1. Sustainability – the challenge for ergonomists
Mark O'Dwyer |
| 10.30am - 11.00am |
Morning tea |
| 11.00am |
Should the human factors of volunteerism
be considered when developing a Risk Management Plan for a sports event?
Gerry Geue and Jennie Window, University of Adelaide
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An evaluation of isometric vs dynamic upper cervical
flexion exercises during pause breaks in seated VDT work.
Clyde Crawford, Australia Post |
| 11.30am |
The perceived importance and the presence of creative
potential in health professional's work environment. Sue Lukersmith,
Lukersmith & Associates |
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A study of work-related musculoskeletal disorders in
surgeons. Szeto GPY (Grace), Ho P, Poon JTC, Ting ACW, Cheng SWK,
Tsang RCC. Dept of Rehabilitation Sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University
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| 11.45am |
Is the World Health Organisation (WHO) International
Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) relevant
to ergonomics.
Robyn Coman and Catherine Sykes, School of Risk & Safety
Sciences, University of NSW, Sydney, Australian Institute of Health
and Welfare AIHW
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Analysis of Working Postures if Gari Frying Workers
in Southwestern Nigeria.
Samuel T.M, Igbeka J., Olabisi Onabanjo University and University
of Ibadan, Nigeria |
| 12.30pm - 1.30pm |
Lunch |
| 1.30pm |
Workshop:
Professional Certification - Its relevance to you, to
the Society and to Ergonomics in Australia.
Dr Neil Adams, HFESA; Dr Neil Adams and Associates |
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Workshop:
Open Space Forum on Methodology for interventions
in psychosocial work environments.
Andrea Shaw, Shaw Idea Pty Ltd |
| 3.00pm - 3.30pm |
Afternoon tea |
| 3.30pm |
Air Traffic, Free Flight and Human-Automation
Interaction.
Janice Langan-Fox, Swinburne University of Technology |
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Sustainable Injury Reduction with Motorised Transport
for Healthcare.
Eric Hofmanis, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, The Queen
Elizabeth Hospital |
| 4.00pm |
Radiative heat exchanges of people in complex geometry buildings:
An experimentally based algorithm for computing angle factors.
M La Gennusa, A Nucara, G Rizzo, G Scaccianoce,Dipartimento de
Ricerche Energetiche ed Ambientali, Universita degli Studi di Palermo,
Italy
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The benefits of sitting and standing to work. Mark Dohrmann, Mark
Dohrmann and Partners Pty Ltd |
| 4.30pm |
TRACER-RAV: Modification of the Technique for the Retrospective and
Predictive Analysis of Cognitive Errors, for Australian rail use.
Melissa Baysari, Carlo Caponecchia and Andrew McIntosh, University
of New South Wales |
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Reducing the Manual Handling Risks for Strippers at Work.
Eric Hofmanis, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service, The Queen Elizabeth
Hospital. |
| 5.00pm |
Business meetings
A New SIG: Ergonomics in Health Care: Convenor: Louise Whitby
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| 5.30pm |
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| 7.00pm |
Intimate dinner
including wines, hosted by well-known Adelaide wine maker, Adam
Wynn |
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| TUESDAY |
| 8.30am |
Registration |
| 9.00am |
Ron Cumming Memorial Lecture
Adjunct Professor David Caple
Chair: Assoc Prof Robin Burgess-Limerick, President of HFESA
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| 10.30am - 11.00am |
Morning tea |
| 11.00am |
The Effects of Monotony on the Performance
of Simple and Complex Tasks.
Naomi Dunn and Professor Ann Williamson, School of Risk and Safety
Science and Department of Aviation, University of New South Wales. |
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Case Study of a collaborative project for
production redesign.
Helen Moody, Corporate Health
Group, Karen Bastian & Mark Wallace, Carl Zeiss
Vison |
| 11.30am |
The role of contextual factors for musculoskeletal disorders in the
New Zealand meat processing industry.
D.C. Tappin, T.A. Bentley and A. Vitalis, Centre for Human Factors
and Ergonomics and Massey University, Auckland
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Capturing Emergent Knowledge from Design
Practice for Human Interaction Usability.
Peter Schumacher, University of South Australia |
| 12.00pm |
Ergonomics and Computer Use: Increasing
the awareness of rural nursing professionals.
Janet Sawyer and Joy Penman, University
of South Australia.
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Participative Workplace Design - essential
to creating sustainable workplaces.
Andrea Shaw and Associate Professor
Verna Blewett, Shaw Idea Pty Ltd and UniSA |
Site
visit
GMH |
| 12.30pm - 1.30pm |
Lunch |
| 1.30pm |
Workshop:
Not really our business? A debate
on the role of ergonomics professional bodies in national politics.
Dave Moore, Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics (COHFE) |
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Workshop:
Seminar Proposal - Integrating
Health, Safety and Environment - Synergy or Shotgun wedding?
Andrea Shaw, Shaw Idea Pty Ltd |
| 3.00pm - 3.30pm |
Afternoon tea |
| 3.30pm |
Measuring aspects of safety culture in human factors
and ergonomics studies.
T.A. Bentley and D.C. Tappin, Department of Management and International
Business, Massey University, Auckland
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Principles for designing control levers.
Veronica Krupenia
and Robin Burgess-Limerick and Guy Wallis |
| 4.00pm |
The Human Aspect of Business Ethics.
Bjørn Andersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU |
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The health and fitness of log truck drivers in New Zealand.
Dr Hamish Mackie and Dr Dave Moore, TERNZ & COHFE |
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| 4.30pm |
The Process of Person Environment Interrelationships:
Workplace Implications
Mini Suresh, Dr. Jill Franz, Dr. Dianne Smith, Dr. Renata Meuter |
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Strategy affects compatability: Evidence from a coal
mine shuttle car simulator
Christine Zupanc, Robin Burgess-Limerick and Guy Wallis
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| 5.00pm |
AGM |
| 5.30pm |
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| 7.00pm |
Gala Dinner including After-dinner
speaker: Dr Michael
Patkin - Fellow of HFESA |
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| WEDNESDAY |
| 8.30am |
Registration |
| 9.00am |
Keynote No. 2 Anthropometrics
Dr Gregory F. Zehner |
| 10.30am - 11.00am |
Morning tea |
| 11.00am |
Multimodal size: an approach to size designations
for women’s mass market apparel.
Kate Kennedy
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The Main Ergonomic Considerations in
the design of an Intelligent Personal Rapid Transit.
Prof. Iwona Grabarek, Prof. Wlodzimierz Choromanski, Faculty
of Transport, Warsaw University of Technolog
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| 11.30am |
2-D representations of the user: still needed in a 3-D
world.
Stephen Ward, University of New South Wales |
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Localising Synthesised Spatial Audio Filtered through
a Generalised HRTF.
John Towers, University of Queensland - School
of Human Movement Studies
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| 12.00pm |
Practical Application
of 3D Data for Apparel Industry use
Daisy Veitch and Barbara Davis |
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Level of Automation: Effects on Train Drivers, Vigilance.
Peter Spring, Melissa Baysari, Andrew McIntosh, School of Risk and
Safety Sciences, Univeristy of New South Wales
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| 12.30pm - 1.30pm |
Lunch |
| 1.30pm |
Workshop: Anthropometry:
Design to fit.
Dr Gregory F. Zehner Senior
Research Physical Anthropologist, Air Force Research Laboratory,
Wright-Patterson Air Force, Ohio, USA
In this workshop Dr Zehner
will demonstrate how to how to run the Multivariate Accommodations
Modeling Program – an alternative to percentiles, and how to use
3-D scan data to solve design problems.
This workshop includes the
paper: Sizing up Australia: Facts and figures on current use and
future direction of anthropometry in the Australian workforce.
Daisy
Veitch, Verna Blewett and David Caple
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Assessing manual handling related injuy risk exposure in residential
aged care with the MAPO Index (Movement and Assistance of Hospital
Patients). A pilot study.
Robyn Coman, Associate Professor Andrew McIntosh,
School of Risk & Safety
Sciences, University of NSW, Sydney
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| 2.00pm |
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Musculoskeletal Disorders and Psychosocial Risk Factors
among Veterinarians in Queensland, Australia.
Derek R. Smith, Peter A. Leggat and Richard Speare, University
of Newcastle, Ourimbah, and James Cook University, Townsville
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| 2.30pm |
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Ergonomics input into workstation design in control
rooms: Is sustainable work performance assumed or evident?
Helen Beazley,
MHFESA |
| 3.00pm |
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Employees' perceptions of the fit between their work
environment and their performance: a holistic, human-centred approach.
Jung-Hee Rho and Associate Professor Jill Franz, Queensland University
of Technology |
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| 3.30pm - 4.00pm |
Afternoon tea |
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Workshop:
ARASIG: made-to-measure.
Stephen Ward, University of New
South Wales |
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Optimizing the Workstation of Jewellery in Jewellery Workshop.
Zahra Tashakorinia, Amirhossein Arabkheradmand, University of Tehran.
The effects of preparing pendulum sliders with lapping paper on slip
resistance measurements.
Neil D Adams |
| 5.00pm |
PLENARY - CLOSE
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| 5.30pm |
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