President
Eric Min-yang Wang, PhD
王明揚
Professor, Human Factors and Ergonomics Program
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
National Tsing Hua University101, Sec. 2, Guang Fu Road
Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC
Phone: +886-3-574-2649
Fax: +886-3-572-6153
Email: President@iea.cc

New Year Greetings & President’s Newsletter from IEA
December 24, 2012
Dear IEA members, colleagues, and friends,
It is the end of the year again! While you are preparing for celebration of Christmas
and New Year, I would like to share with you some of the events that have been
happening with IEA in 2012.
The IEA council meeting and the IEA Triennial Congress in Recife, Brazil. TheIEA began the year with preparation of the Council meeting and the IEA Triennial
Congress in Recife, Brazil from February 11 to 16, 2012. These events were in Brazil
and in Latin America the very first time ever in the IEA history. It symbolizes theincreasing development of ergonomics worldwide as well as more influence andneeds of ergonomics in developing countries. The updated IEA rules and theoperation procedures along with other important items were discussed and approvedby the council. New officers were elected by the council members and the executives
were formally transferred in the closing ceremony of the congress.

The Council meeting in Recife was closed on February 12, 2012 by taking this group picture ofthe delegates.
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Association of Canadian
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Chinese Ergonomics Society
Croatian Ergonomics SocietyCzech ergonomic SocietyErgonomics Society (U.K.)
Ergonomics Society ofAustralia
Ergonomics Society of Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
Ergonomics Society of Korea
Ergonomics Society of SouthAfrica

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Ergonomics Society of Taiwan
FEES
Gesellschaft fürArbeitswissenschaft
Hellenic Ergonomics Society
Hong Kong Ergonomics
Society
Human Factors andErgonomics Society (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Ergonomics Society
Italian Society of Ergonomics

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Iranian Ergonomics Society
Irish Ergonomics Society
Israeli Ergonomics SocietyJapan Ergonomics Society
Nederlandse Vereniging Voor
Ergonomie
New Zealand Ergonomics
SocietyNordic Ergonomic Society

Ö sterreichischearbeitsgemeinschaft fürErgonomie
Polish Ergonomics Society
Associação Portuguesa deErgonomia
Slovak Ergonomics Association
Sociedad Chilena deErgonomia
Sociedad Columbiana deErgonomia

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Sociedad de Ergonomistas deMexico
Società Italiana di Ergonomia
Société d’Ergonomie deLangue FrançaiseSouth East Asia Ergonomics
Society
Swiss Society for Ergonomics
Turkish Ergonomics Society
ULAERGOThe IEA is registered as an association at the Commercial Registry of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland:Company-Nr. CH020.6.001.285-4

President
Eric Min-yang Wang, PhD
王明揚
Professor, Human Factors and Ergonomics Program
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
National Tsing Hua University101, Sec. 2, Guang Fu Road
Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC
Phone: +886-3-574-2649
Fax: +886-3-572-6153
Email: President@iea.cc

The IEA Award winners received the certificates and plaques in the opening ceremony of thecongress in the evening of February 12, 2012.

Interactions with IEA Collaboration Associations the International Commission
on Occupational Health (ICOH) and the International Occupational Hygiene
Association (IOHA). ICOH held its 30th International Congress on Occupational
Health in Cancun, Mexico in March 18 to 23, 2012. Andy Imada, the immediate past
President of IEA, and Noel Tresider, the IOHA President, were invited and hadinteractions with ICOH President Kazukata Kogi and friends from WHO, ILO, andmany other professional organizations.
About a half year later, on September 16 to 20, IOHA celebrated its 25th Anniversary
and held its 9th International Scientific Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. IEAPresident Eric Wang and ICOH President Kazutaka Kogi were invited and gave
keynote speeches in the conference. A consensus on an initiative of group effort
towards publishing a guidance book on risk prevention was achieved by the three
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Association of Canadian
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Chinese Ergonomics Society
Croatian Ergonomics Society
Czech ergonomic Society
Ergonomics Society (U.K.)
Ergonomics Society ofAustralia
Ergonomics Society of Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
Ergonomics Society of Korea
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Ergonomics Society of Taiwan
FEES
Gesellschaft fürArbeitswissenschaft
Hellenic Ergonomics Society
Hong Kong Ergonomics
Society
Human Factors andErgonomics Society (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Ergonomics Society
Italian Society of Ergonomics

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Inter-Regional Ergonomics
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Iranian Ergonomics Society
Irish Ergonomics Society
Israeli Ergonomics Society
Japan Ergonomics Society
Nederlandse Vereniging VoorErgonomie
New Zealand Ergonomics
Society
Nordic Ergonomic SocietyÖ sterreichischearbeitsgemeinschaft fürErgonomie
Polish Ergonomics SocietyAssociação Portuguesa deErgonomia
Slovak Ergonomics Association
Sociedad Chilena deErgonomia
Sociedad Columbiana deErgonomia

Sociedad de Ergonomistas deMexico
Società Italiana di Ergonomia
Société d’Ergonomie deLangue FrançaiseSouth East Asia Ergonomics
SocietySwiss Society for Ergonomics
Turkish Ergonomics Society
ULAERGOThe IEA is registered as an association at the Commercial Registry of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland:Company-Nr. CH020.6.001.285-4

President
Eric Min-yang Wang, PhD
王明揚
Professor, Human Factors and Ergonomics Program
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
National Tsing Hua University
101, Sec. 2, Guang Fu Road
Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC
Phone: +886-3-574-2649
Fax: +886-3-572-6153
Email: President@iea.ccPresidents. The MOUs on collaboration among the three associations will be renewedby next May.

Andy Imada, the immediate Past
President of IEA, gave an opening
speech in ICOH Congress inCancun, Mexico in March 18, 2012.

The Presidents of thethree collaboration
associations were infront of the slide after
Eric Wang’s speech inKuala Lumpur on
September 20.
From left, Eric Wang
(IEA), JacobNaerheim (IOHA),and Kazutaka Kogi(ICOH).
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Chinese Ergonomics Society
Croatian Ergonomics Society
Czech ergonomic Society
Ergonomics Society (U.K.)
Ergonomics Society ofAustralia
Ergonomics Society of Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
Ergonomics Society of Korea
Ergonomics Society of SouthAfrica

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Ergonomics Society of TaiwanFEES
Gesellschaft fürArbeitswissenschaft
Hellenic Ergonomics Society
Hong Kong Ergonomics
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Human Factors andErgonomics Society (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Ergonomics Society
Italian Society of Ergonomics

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Inter-Regional Ergonomics
Association
Iranian Ergonomics Society
Irish Ergonomics Society
Israeli Ergonomics Society
Japan Ergonomics Society
Nederlandse Vereniging Voor
Ergonomie
New Zealand Ergonomics
Society
Nordic Ergonomic Society

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Ö sterreichischearbeitsgemeinschaft fürErgonomie
Polish Ergonomics Society
Associação Portuguesa deErgonomia
Slovak Ergonomics Association
Sociedad Chilena deErgonomia
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Sociedad de Ergonomistas deMexico
Società Italiana di Ergonomia
Société d’Ergonomie deLangue FrançaiseSouth East Asia Ergonomics
SocietySwiss Society for Ergonomics
Turkish Ergonomics SocietyULAERGOThe IEA is registered as an association at the Commercial Registry of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland:Company-Nr. CH020.6.001.285-4

President
Eric Min-yang Wang, PhD
王明揚
Professor, Human Factors and Ergonomics Program
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
National Tsing Hua University101, Sec. 2, Guang Fu Road
Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROCPhone: +886-3-574-2649
Fax: +886-3-572-6153
Email: President@iea.cc

The 50th Anniversary of Dutch Ergonomics Society (NVvE), presenting ofLiberty Mutual Award, and others. On October 25 of 2012, NVvE celebrated its
50th Anniversary together with the 20th Anniversary of the Society for the Registrationof Dutch Ergonomists and the 15th Anniversary of the Society of Registered
Ergonomists in The Netherlands. On behalf of IEA, Pieter Rookmaaker delivered thePresident’s Greetings message of “Share the 50-year-YOUNG Experience with theWorld” to NVvE and the other two societies and the audience. Ernst Koningsveld
presented the IEA Liberty Mutual Award to Berry den Brinker followed by Berry’s
brief presentation of the study. On November 7, Ernst presented the medal to bothauthors, Berry den Brinker and Paul Schepers, at the International Cycling Safety
Conference in Helmond, The Netherlands. The response of the audience was very
positive.

Ernst Koningsveld(Right) presented theLiberty Mutual Award
to one of the authors
Berry den Brinker(Left) in NVvE 50thAnniversary meeting.

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Association of Canadian
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Chinese Ergonomics Society
Croatian Ergonomics Society
Czech ergonomic Society
Ergonomics Society (U.K.)
Ergonomics Society ofAustralia
Ergonomics Society of Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
Ergonomics Society of Korea
Ergonomics Society of SouthAfrica

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Ergonomics Society of Taiwan
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Gesellschaft fürArbeitswissenschaft
Hellenic Ergonomics Society
Hong Kong Ergonomics
Society
Human Factors andErgonomics Society (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Ergonomics Society
Italian Society of Ergonomics

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Inter-Regional Ergonomics
AssociationIranian Ergonomics Society
Irish Ergonomics Society
Israeli Ergonomics Society
Japan Ergonomics Society
Nederlandse Vereniging VoorErgonomie
New Zealand Ergonomics
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Ö sterreichischearbeitsgemeinschaft fürErgonomie
Polish Ergonomics Society
Associação Portuguesa deErgonomia
Slovak Ergonomics Association
Sociedad Chilena deErgonomia
Sociedad Columbiana deErgonomia

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MexicoSocietà Italiana di Ergonomia
Société d’Ergonomie deLangue FrançaiseSouth East Asia ErgonomicsSociety
Swiss Society for Ergonomics
Turkish Ergonomics Society
ULAERGOThe IEA is registered as an association at the Commercial Registry of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland:Company-Nr. CH020.6.001.285-4

President
Eric Min-yang Wang, PhD
王明揚
Professor, Human Factors and Ergonomics Program
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
National Tsing Hua University
101, Sec. 2, Guang Fu Road
Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC
Phone: +886-3-574-2649
Fax: +886-3-572-6153
Email: President@iea.cc

New President of Chinese Ergonomics Society (CES) elected and the first IEA
Executive Committee meeting in Beijing. Chinese Ergonomics Society held its
Congress and officers election on November 30 in Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Wei Zhang, professor and deputy head of Industrial Engineering Department atTsinghua University in Beijing and IEA Chair of Science, Technology, and PracticeStanding Committee, was elected the new President of CES for the next four years
term. Eric Wang was invited to witness the election and deliver a keynote speech on“Rethinking and challenging of ergonomics development: GLOBALization +LOCALization”. Congratulations to Wei!

Eric Wang (Left) presented aformal letter of greetings toCES President Sheng Wang(Right) for the success of thecongress at the CES Congress
opening ceremony in Tsinghua
University, Beijing, China onNovember 30.

The first IEA Executive Committee meeting was held in Beijing on December 2 and 3.
Andy Imada (Immediately Past President), Margo Fraser (Vice President andSecretary General), Yushi Fujita (Vice President and Treasurer), Barbara Silverstein(Chair of International Development Standing Committee), Wei Zhang (Chair ofScience, Technology, and Practice Standing Committee), and Eric Wang attended themeeting. Goals, policies, initiatives were discussed and action items were concluded.

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Association of Canadian
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Chinese Ergonomics Society
Croatian Ergonomics Society
Czech ergonomic Society
Ergonomics Society (U.K.)
Ergonomics Society ofAustralia
Ergonomics Society of Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
Ergonomics Society of Korea
Ergonomics Society of SouthAfrica

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Ergonomics Society of TaiwanFEES
Gesellschaft fürArbeitswissenschaftHellenic Ergonomics Society
Hong Kong Ergonomics
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Human Factors andErgonomics Society (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Ergonomics Society
Italian Society of Ergonomics

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Inter-Regional Ergonomics
Association
Iranian Ergonomics Society
Irish Ergonomics Society
Israeli Ergonomics Society
Japan Ergonomics Society
Nederlandse Vereniging VoorErgonomie
New Zealand Ergonomics
Society
Nordic Ergonomic Society

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Ö sterreichischearbeitsgemeinschaft fürErgonomie
Polish Ergonomics Society
Associação Portuguesa deErgonomia
Slovak Ergonomics Association
Sociedad Chilena deErgonomia
Sociedad Columbiana deErgonomia

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Sociedad de Ergonomistas deMexico
Società Italiana di Ergonomia
Société d’Ergonomie deLangue FrançaiseSouth East Asia Ergonomics
SocietySwiss Society for Ergonomics
Turkish Ergonomics Society
ULAERGOThe IEA is registered as an association at the Commercial Registry of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland:Company-Nr. CH020.6.001.285-4

President
Eric Min-yang Wang, PhD
王明揚Professor, Human Factors and Ergonomics Program
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
National Tsing Hua University
101, Sec. 2, Guang Fu Road
Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC
Phone: +886-3-574-2649
Fax: +886-3-572-6153
Email: President@iea.cc

IEA EC meeting in Tsinghua University on December 2 and 3. From left, Wei Zhang,
Yushi Fujita, Eric Wang, Margo Fraser, Barbara Silverstein, and Andy Imada.

Newsletter as an open platform for all IEA member societies. It is important for allIEA member societies to have more communications among each other. Moreover, it
is even more important for those who are interested in ergonomics having access tothe information of ergonomics activities that are going on around us. To encourageinteractions and communications I would like to make the newsletter an open
platform for all IEA member societies starting from the new year of 2013. Pleaseshare your news articles with all members in IEA family. Aiming at this goal, I am
looking for a Chair of Communication Standing Committee who will be responsible
for promotion of internal and external communications for IEA including editing andpublishing the newsletter. This position is open for anyone who is enthusiastic and has
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All-Ukrainian Ergonomics
AssociationAsociación Española De
Ergonomia
Asociación de Ergonomia
Argentina
Association of Canadian
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Brazilian Ergonomics
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Chinese Ergonomics Society
Croatian Ergonomics Society
Czech ergonomic Society
Ergonomics Society (U.K.)
Ergonomics Society ofAustralia
Ergonomics Society of Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
Ergonomics Society of Korea
Ergonomics Society of South
Africa

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Ergonomics Society of Taiwan
FEES
Gesellschaft fürArbeitswissenschaft
Hellenic Ergonomics Society
Hong Kong Ergonomics
Society
Human Factors andErgonomics Society (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Ergonomics Society
Italian Society of Ergonomics

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Inter-Regional Ergonomics
Association
Iranian Ergonomics Society
Irish Ergonomics Society
Israeli Ergonomics Society
Japan Ergonomics Society
Nederlandse Vereniging VoorErgonomie
New Zealand Ergonomics
Society
Nordic Ergonomic Society

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Ö sterreichischearbeitsgemeinschaft fürErgonomie
Polish Ergonomics Society
Associação Portuguesa deErgonomia
Slovak Ergonomics Association
Sociedad Chilena deErgonomia
Sociedad Columbiana deErgonomia

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Sociedad de Ergonomistas deMexico
Società Italiana di Ergonomia
Société d’Ergonomie deLangue FrançaiseSouth East Asia Ergonomics
SocietySwiss Society for Ergonomics
Turkish Ergonomics SocietyULAERGOThe IEA is registered as an association at the Commercial Registry of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland:Company-Nr. CH020.6.001.285-4

President
Eric Min-yang Wang, PhD
王明揚
Professor, Human Factors and Ergonomics Program
Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
National Tsing Hua University
101, Sec. 2, Guang Fu Road
Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC
Phone: +886-3-574-2649
Fax: +886-3-572-6153
Email: President@iea.cc

federated societies. Please submit your nomination and your news article to me while
the Chair of Communication Standing Committee is not yet appointed. I look forward
to receiving your news articles.
In the Christmas Eve, I wish you enjoying the peace and the silence of the night. I alsowish you a Happy New Year throughout the 2013!

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Asociación de Ergonomia
Argentina
Association of Canadian
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Brazilian Ergonomics
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Chinese Ergonomics Society
Croatian Ergonomics Society
Czech ergonomic Society
Ergonomics Society (U.K.)
Ergonomics Society ofAustralia
Ergonomics Society of Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia
Ergonomics Society of Korea
Ergonomics Society of SouthAfrica

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Ergonomics Society of Taiwan
FEES
Gesellschaft fürArbeitswissenschaft
Hellenic Ergonomics Society
Hong Kong Ergonomics
Society
Human Factors andErgonomics Society (U.S.A.)
Hungarian Ergonomics Society
Italian Society of Ergonomics

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Israeli Ergonomics SocietyJapan Ergonomics Society
Nederlandse Vereniging VoorErgonomie
New Zealand Ergonomics
SocietyNordic Ergonomic SocietyÖ sterreichischearbeitsgemeinschaft fürErgonomie
Polish Ergonomics SocietyAssociação Portuguesa deErgonomia
Slovak Ergonomics Association
Sociedad Chilena deErgonomia
Sociedad Columbiana deErgonomia

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Sociedad de Ergonomistas deMexico
Società Italiana di Ergonomia
Société d’Ergonomie deLangue FrançaiseSouth East Asia Ergonomics
Society
Swiss Society for Ergonomics
Turkish Ergonomics Society
ULAERGOThe IEA is registered as an association at the Commercial Registry of the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland:Company-Nr. CH020.6.001.285-4