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History of HES

The Hellenic Ergonomics Society (HES) was founded on July 1988 and became an IEA federated society on August 1994. Its objective is the advancement, proliferation and promotion of ergonomics science through the collaboaration, knowledge sharing, methods and practice, and experience among Ergonomists but also among professionals originating from other disciplines, whose domains of experise include the research and understanding of the contribution of human activity in design, production and use of equipment, indicators and production means..
The Hellenic Ergonomics Society currently counts 43 full members. In their majority they are engineers. The rest are physiologists, occupational physicians and professional from related disciplines.Four members of the HES have been accredited with the Eur.Erg. title (European Ergonomists).

Objective and goals
According to its charter, the Hellenic Ergonomics Society serves the purpose of advancing, proliferating and promoting the science of Ergonomics, the conduct and implementation of research in related domains and the representation of Greece to international organisations. Read the HES charter (in Greek).

Board
The Board of the Hellenic Ergonomics Society is the following:

President: Dimitris Nathanael, Eur.Erg.
Vice-president: Theoni Koukoulaki
G. Secretariat: Nikos Zarboutis, Eur.Erg
Treasurer: Vassilis Papakostopoulos, Eur.Erg
Member: Nicolas Marmaras
Member: Ilias Banoutsos
Member: Sotiria Drivalou
Member: George Poulakakis

Milestones

1989-1991 The organisation of a two-year post-graduate educational programme on Ergonomics, funded by the European Union. The programme was implemented by ELKEPA and two European Insitutes, i.e. HUSAT, Loughborough University , and the German Institute IAO .
1993 Participation of the HES in the European Year for the Safety & Healt at Work. A leaflet was issued and distributed and there were organised two seminars on the environmental HCI (1993).
1995 Participation of the HES in the Hellenic Organisation for Standardisation TE 59 committe, providing advice on Ergonomics Standards issues.
1997 Organisation of the 1st National Ergonomics Conference, entitled "Ergonomics Interventions in Greece" (Athens, November. The conference was co-organised with the Technical Chamber of Greece. There were presented ergonomics studies and interventions in Greece. The studies were allocated in four sections: ergonomics evaluation and work layout specifications, usability engineering, ergonomics design and ergonomics in Safety and Health at Work. The conference was attended by more than 130 people and was broadly presented in the media.

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