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The safety of work equipment: user-oriented strategies for improving technical standards
| 12-13 June 2003 | Brussels |
The joint conference hosted by the TUTB and the Swedish SALTSA Programme sets out to present current practices, trends and prospects for integrating users' experience into the standardisation process.
The idea is to look at whether and how cooperative working techniques between designers and users can be made use of by European and international standards organisations. These bodies offer a forum for comparing different technical approaches and searching for design solutions that incorporate advances not just in technology but also health, safety and ergonomics.
Programme
Session I: The implications of a globalized standardization process for European trade unions
International standards for the elimination of barriers to trade: KAN report
Corrado Mattiuzzo, Technical Officer, Kommission Arbeitsschutz und Normung, Germany.
Session II: Participatory design of work equipment
French case studies Alain Garrigou, University of Bordeaux, France.
German case studies Oliver Polanz, BAU-BG Rheinland und Westfalen, Germany.
Dutch case studies Robin Bronkhorst, TNO, The Netherlands.
Workshop 1: Strategies and pathways to feed end-user information into work equipment design
Report of the rapporteur of the workshop Fabio Strambi, Alta Val D’Elsa USL 7 Siena, Italy.
Workshop 2: The research input to participatory design in Europe – Identifying future needs
Future research needs: designing pilot projects on collecting information on specific equipment from the workplace Wendy Morris, Institute of Occupational Ergonomics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Session III: Conclusions - Future actions
Key points of the debate - questions for the panel discussion Theoni Koukoulaki, ELINYAE, Greece (former TUTB researcher).
The Conference report was published in a special issue of the TUTB Newsletter.
