President

David C. Caple
David C. Caple & Associates Pty Ltd
PO Box 2135
East Ivanhoe
Victoria 3079
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61-3-9499-9011
Email: davidcaple@pacific.net.au

IEA Newsletter from the IEA President
No. 37 – July - 2009
Dear Council Members,

Secretary General

Pascale Carayon
Industrial & Systems Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1550 Engineering Drive
3126 Engineering Centers Building
Madison, WI 53706, USA
Tel: +1-608-265-0503
Email: carayon@engr.wisc.edu

I am delighted to provide our July 2009 Newsletter to members of the IEA Federated Societies
and Technical Committees. This will be my last Newsletter as the 16th IEA President. The IEACouncil will elect the 17th President, Secretary General and Treasurer at the meeting inBeijing, China on the 9th August.

Treasurer

Min K. Chung
Industrial & Management Engineering
POSTECH
Hyoja San 31
Pohang 790-784
KOREA
Tel: +82-54-279-2192
Email: mkc@postech.ac.kr

Development

Jan DulRotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University Rotterdam
PO Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: +31-10-408-1719
Email: jdul@rsm.nl

EQUID

Ralph Bruder
Institute of Ergonomics
Head of InstituteDarmstadt University of TechnologyPetersenstrasse 30
64287 Darmstadt
GERMANY
Tel: ++49-6151-162987
Email: bruder@iad.tu-darmstadt.de

Triennial Awards will be officially presented at the IEA Congress in Beijing, during theCongress dinner.
I would like to acknowledge the other excellent nominations received by the IEA fromFederated Societies for these Awards. It is difficult for the Awards Panels to decide the award
recipients when there are so many who have contributed to ergonomics at an international
level.

International Development

Marcelo Soares
Federal University of Pernambuco
Department of Design/CAC
Cidade Universitaria50.670-420 – Recife, PE
BRAZIL
Tel: +81-2126-8909
Email: Marcelo2@nlink.com.br

Professional Standards & Education

Thomas J. Smith
School of Kinesiology
University of Minnesota
1900 University Ave. SE 226 Cooke Hall
Minneapolis, MN 55455 - USA
Tel: +1-651-688-7444
Email: smith293@umn.edu

Science, Technology & PracticeHalimahtun M. Khalid
Damai Sciences Sdn Bhd
A-31-3 Suasana Sentral
Jalan Stesen Sentral 550470 Kuala Lumpur
MALAYSIA
Tel: +603-2282 9006, 2272 2228
Email: halimahtun@damai-sciences.com

Past President - Awards

Pierre Falzon
Laboratoire d’Ergonomie, CNAM
41 Rue Gay Lussac
75005 Paris
FRANCE
Tel: +33-1-44-107802
Email: falzon@cnam.fr
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All-Ukrainian Ergonomics
Association
Asociación de Ergonomia
Argentina
Associação Brasileira deErgonomia
Asociación Ecuatoriana deErgonomia
Associação Portuguesa deErgonomia
Association of Canadian
Ergonomists

1. IEA 2006 – 2009 Triennial Awards
It is our pleasure to announce the names of the persons who have been distinguished to receive
an IEA Triennial Award. Congratulations are offered to:• Ergonomics Development Award : Klaus Zink, nominated by the GfA (Gesellschaft
für Arbeitwissenschaft, Germany)• Outstanding Educators Award : François Daniellou, nominated by SELF (Sociétéd’Ergonomie de Langue Française, France)• Award for the promotion of ergonomics in Industrially Developing Countries : Elias
Apud, nominated by SOCHERGO (Sociedad Chilena de Ergonomia, Chile)• Distinguished Service Award: Sebastiano Bagnara, nominated by the SIE (Societa
Italiana de Ergonomia, Italy.

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We will also be announcing the IEA Fellows and the Triennial President’s Award at theCouncil meeting.
2. IEA / Liberty Mutual Medal Winner for 2009
I am pleased to announce that the 2009 winner of the $10,000 Liberty Mutual Medal for
Occupational Safety and Ergonomics is Dr Suman Singh from the College of Home Sciences,
Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture & Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. Her
paper was titled: "Mitigating occupational health hazards of women farmers througheducational and technological interventions". The committee was impressed (a) by the systems
approach of combining ergonomic design/redesign of equipment and development andapplication of a training program involving participatory field level skill training and repeatedfield demonstrations in the proper use of the ergonomically improved farm instruments, and(b) the impact of the project, which directly benefitted 4,200 women, and potentially canbenefit many more farm workers in IDC's. Congratulations to Dr Singh. She will be presented
Belgian Ergonomics Society
Chilean Ergonomics Society
Chinese Ergonomics Society
Croatian Ergonomics Society
Czech Ergonomic Society
Ergonomics Society (U.K.)
Ergonomics Society of Korea
Ergonomics Society of Nigeria
Ergonomics Society of Serbia
Ergonomics Society of South
AfricaErgonomics Society of TaiwanFEES•••••••••

Gesellschaft fürArbeitswissenschaft
Hellenic Ergonomics Society
Hong Kong Ergonomics
Society
Human Ergology Society
Human Factors andErgonomics Society (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Ergonomics Society
Indian Society of Ergonomics
Inter-Regional Ergonomics
Association
Iranian Ergonomics Society

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Irish Ergonomics Society
Israel Ergonomics Society
Japan Ergonomics Society
Latvijas Ergonomikas Biedriba
Nederlandse Vereniging VoorErgonomie
New Zealand Ergonomics
Society
Nordic Ergonomics SocietyÖsterreichische
Arbeitsgemeinschaft fürErgonomie
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Philippines Ergonomics
Society
Polish Ergonomics Society
Slovak Ergonomics
AssociationSociedad Colombiana deErgonomia
Sociedad de Ergonomistas deMexico
Società Italiana di Ergonomia
Société d’Ergonomie deLangue Française

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Société Tunisienned'Ergonomie
South East Asian Ergonomics
Society
Spanish Association ofErgonomics
Swiss Ergonomics Society
The Human Factors andErgonomics Society ofAustralia
Turkish Ergonomics Society
ULAERGO

with her Award at the Congress in Beijing and will have the opportunity to present her research in the Scientificprogram.
The Chair of the Awards Committee, Pierre Falzon, commented on the high standard of the many applicants this year. Iencourage all researchers in the Occupational Safety and Ergonomics area to consider applying in 2010. Keep an eye on theIEA website of the application details which close on May 21st 2010.
3. Farewell to the 16th IEA Executive
This will be the last Newsletter from the 16th IEA Executive (2006 – 2009). We have thoroughly enjoyed the last three years ofleadership of the IEA and feel honoured for this opportunity.
I am immensely grateful for the tireless efforts of:
Pascale Carayon (USA) – Secretary General who has spent 6 years on the Executive Committee.
Min Chung (Korea) – Treasurer for the last 3 years
Pierre Falzon (France) – Past President and Awards Chair who has had 9 years on the Executive Committee
Jan Dul (The Netherlands) – Development Committee Chair for the last 6 years
Halimahtun Khalid (Malaysia) – Science Technology and Practice Chair and Co Chair of the IEA 2009 Congress who has
worked so hard on the Congress program over the last 3 years
Marcelo Soares (Brazil) – Chair of the Industrially Developing Countries Committee for the last 3 years and Chair of the IEA
2012 Congress in Brazil.
Tom Smith (USA) – Chair of the Professional Standards and Education Committee for the last 3 years
Ralph Bruder (Germany) – Chair of the EQUID Committee for two years andLina Bonapace (Italy) – Chair of the EQUID Committee for the first year.
Sheng Wang (China) – Chair of the IEA 2009 Congress Committee.
To all of the team I say an enormous “Thank You” and wish the 17th IEA Executive every success.
Yours sincerely,

Prof. David C Caple
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All-Ukrainian Ergonomics
AssociationAsociación de Ergonomia
Argentina
Associação Brasileira deErgonomia
Asociación Ecuatoriana deErgonomia
Associação Portuguesa deErgonomia
Association of Canadian
Ergonomists

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Belgian Ergonomics Society
Chilean Ergonomics Society
Chinese Ergonomics Society
Croatian Ergonomics Society
Czech Ergonomic Society
Ergonomics Society (U.K.)
Ergonomics Society of Korea
Ergonomics Society of Nigeria
Ergonomics Society of Serbia
Ergonomics Society of South
AfricaErgonomics Society of TaiwanFEES

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Gesellschaft fürArbeitswissenschaft
Hellenic Ergonomics Society
Hong Kong Ergonomics
SocietyHuman Ergology Society
Human Factors andErgonomics Society (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Ergonomics Society
Indian Society of Ergonomics
Inter-Regional Ergonomics
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Irish Ergonomics Society
Israel Ergonomics Society
Japan Ergonomics Society
Latvijas Ergonomikas Biedriba
Nederlandse Vereniging VoorErgonomie
New Zealand Ergonomics
Society
Nordic Ergonomics SocietyÖsterreichische
Arbeitsgemeinschaft fürErgonomie
Perhimpunan Ergonomi
Indonesia

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Philippines Ergonomics
Society
Polish Ergonomics Society
Slovak Ergonomics
Association
Sociedad Colombiana deErgonomia
Sociedad de Ergonomistas deMexico
Società Italiana di Ergonomia
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Société Tunisienned'Ergonomie
South East Asian Ergonomics
SocietySpanish Association ofErgonomics
Swiss Ergonomics Society
The Human Factors andErgonomics Society ofAustralia
Turkish Ergonomics Society
ULAERGO