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Unknown, but valuable: the HFC Forum
ErgoS is a member of Human Factors in Control, abbreviated HFC Forum, an international network for people working with human factors. The HFC arranges every year two conferences. The theme of the May conference was ”Organizational safety and safety culture – current challenges and future directions“. Read more…
CCTV ergonomics ISO-standard
Ruud Pikaar (ErgoS, NL) and John Wood (CCD, UK) are developing a new work item proposal on CCTV ergonomics.
New website Maritime Ergonomics online!!
ErgoS is active in different areas of the maritime sector. For example, ships’ bridges, control posts for coastal and inland traffic, locks and bridges, maritime HCI, and offshore production (gas and oil). It became one of our main working areas. Therefore we designed a website dedicated to this subject, which was launched online recently. If you are interested, please visit our new website.
Friesland Campina - PowerGraphics
Friesland Campina Beilen started a large production automation project. A team of ErgoS HF professionals is engaged in control room design, graphics redesign and the development and implementation of alarm management.
Launch of Subsea Rock Installation Vessel ‘Bravenes’
We congratulate Van Oord with the launch of Subsea Rock Installation Vessel ‘Bravenes’! ErgoS is proud to have made a major contribution to the human centred design of the bridge, workplaces and accommodation for this innovative ship.
Congres Human Factors 2016 was a great success
On 24 and 25 November, Human Factors NL – Association for ergonomics – organized its biennial congress.
On November 24th and 25th Human Factors NL, the Dutch association of ergonomics organizes its biennial congress.
We are in the fourth industrial revolution. Digital technological innovations follow each other very fast. They offer many new opportunities but lead also to disruption of the existing practice. What, for example is the impact of robotics on our way of working?
Centralization operation Prinses Margriet canal
More and more locks in the Netherlands are operated remotely from a central location, by using Closed Circuit Television (CCTV). Rijkswaterstaat started the centralization of the Prinses Margriet canal control. ErgoS is working on the camera plans for five objects (bridges and locks) located in the Prinses Margriet canal.
Rijkswaterstaat - Charm
Rijkswaterstaat (Dutch National Road Operator) in cooperation with Highways England runs a project called CHARM. CHARM will implement an overall traffic control system, replacing several existing applications. ErgoS is consultant in 2016 en 2017 for several ergonomic issues related to introducing this system in the Dutch Traffic Management Centres.
November 25th: I spy with my little eye.
Renske Landman (ErgoS) and Kirsten Schreiber (Intergo) will give a (Dutch) presentation on formulated guidelines for the use of CCTV-systems. The presentation is entitled ‘I spy with my little eye’ and will be held at the Human Factors NL biennial congress.
