Working towards a common goal
We're affiliated to the following organisations, all helping to make life better. Click on the logos to find out more about each of them.
International Ergonomics Society
The IEA's mission is to advance ergonomics science and practice, and to expand its scope of application and contribution to society. The CIEHF is one of 54 Federated Societies of the IEA, and with that comes representation on the IEA Council to discuss activities for its global initiatives, and publication of documents and guidelines among other things.
- Website:
- iea.cc/
Professional Associations Research Network
As a member of PARN, we're committed to good practice, kept up to date on current research and are part of a network of professional bodies that learn from and share with each other.
- Website:
- www.parnglobal.com/
Clinical Human Factors Group
The Clinical Human Factors Group (CHFG) promotes an interest in and the integration of human factors and ergonomics within the UK healthcare sector to improve patient and staff safety.
The CHFG network engages with a wide range of clinical and managerial healthcare staff and strategic influencers interested in human factors and ergonomics.
- Website:
- chfg.org/
Campaign for Science and Engineering
CaSE is the leading independent advocate for science and engineering in the UK. Their mission is to ensure that the UK has the skills, funding and policies to enable science and engineering to thrive. They represent over 115 scientific organisations including businesses, universities, professional bodies, and research charities as well as individual scientists and engineers.
Some of CaSE's activities that have made a difference for the science and engineering sector in 2021 include:
- CaSE’s briefing, Inspiring Innovation, was published, looking at the UK education system.
- The work CaSE undertook for the Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR).
- Launching their Discovery Decade project looking to work with the science and engineering community to research their public audiences and make sure R&D can make it's voice heard.
- Website:
- www.sciencecampaign.org.uk/
Council for Work and Health
The Council for Work & Health brings together various professional bodies which address health at work to provide an authoritative and representative ‘single voice’ on health and wellbeing issues. Ergonomics and human factors are recognised as important in designing work and jobs to prevent workplace injuries and ill health and in modifying workplaces to get people back to work after absence. The CIEHF was one of the early members.
Health at work is often seen in purely medical terms and the CIEHF wants to ensure that ergonomics and human factors are fully recognised for their roles especially in prevention and rehabilitation. Playing a full part in this organisation gives us an opportunity to shape future health and work in the UK. One of the major Council projects we are involved with is to model future occupational health service provision for the next 20 years.
Being aligned with organisations such as the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health also increases our voice with government and industry.
- Website:
- www.councilforworkandhealth.org.uk/
BSI
We have a representative on BSI's Technical Committee PH/9 Applied Ergonomics to ensure the best possible ergonomics, technical and professional advice is available to BSI and ISO.
This contributes to high quality standards which are used throughout the profession by organisations with an interest, including many government agencies such as MoD and NHS, industry, offices, safety organisations and others.
- Website:
- www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/
Hazards Forum
The Hazards Forum was established in 1989 by the four major engineering institutions, the Institutions of Civil, Electrical, Mechanical and Chemical Engineers to provide an interdisciplinary focus for the study of disasters and the promulgation of lessons learned from them. Since then the Forum has broadened its remit to inform the public understanding of risk, while continuing to develop its work on the assessment of hazardous events, dissemination of lessons learned and the promotion of risk reduction strategies.
A member of the CIEHF attends meetings of the Hazards Forum to put forward the views of the ergonomics and human factors community and to support the forum in its aims.
- Website:
- hazardsforum.org
OSHCR
The Occupational Safety & Health Consultants Register (OSHCR) was set up to enable Health and Safety consultants to be accredited to a professional body and now maintains a register of currently certified professionals in the form of a web-based directory. The register aims to assist businesses in finding advice on general health and safety management.
A minimum standard for certification has been set at a degree level qualification, with at least two years experience and active engagement in a continuing professional development scheme.
Businesses can have confidence in choosing a health and safety consultant from the register, as they are bound by their professional body’s code of conduct and are committed to providing sensible and proportionate health and safety advice.
Engagement Award Winner!
We're delighted to say that we're among the first to be given an Engagement Award for the Professional Associations Research Network's 'Ask the Network' (ATN) survey responses. By supporting the ATN surveys, we're helping to build a strong and resilient sector by demonstrating a willingness to share challenges and solutions – something PARN believes is key to the way the sector works and develops.