Karen Lange-Morales, David Caple and Andrew S. Imada discusses the work of the IEA and their new publication "Giving your business the Humans Factors Edge - Making it Happen" to improve productivity, quality of products and the wellbeing of employees.

The International Ergonomics Association (IEA) is a non-profit international federation of ergonomics and human factors societies from around the world. This document was developed as part of the Science, Technology and Practice Standing Committee (2021-2024)

Karen Lange-Morales is associate professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has worked as a consultant in ergonomics and design in public and private sectors including farming, oil, manufacturing, education, banking, and food areas, among others.

David Caple has led an independent health, safety and ergonomics practitioner company since 1985. He has conducted Work Health and Safety research and practice projects in Australia and internationally for Governments, industry groups, companies and unions. He was an Adjunct Professor at Latrobe University in the Ergonomics and Health and Safety programs for the last 20 years. David was the 16th President of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) 2006-2009 and represented the IEA at conferences and meetings in 30 countries.

Andrew S. Imada is a macroergonomics consultant specializing in human and organisational change. He works with people and organisations to change their cultures, respond to scalability demands, and implement disruptive technologies. He helps them meet these challenges by balancing organisational, safety, quality, and human needs.

Acknowledgments

We are grateful for the invaluable support received from Nancy Black, Rosemary Seva, Nancy Larson, Glenn Azevedo in reading and providing feedback on the document, as well as Yushi Fujita and the IEA standards committee. We also appreciate the feedback on the structure received from Andrew Thatcher, Klaus Zink, Pascale Carayon, Ole Broberg, and Gabriel Garcia-Acosta. Finally, we highlight the valuable support of Dixie Imada in achieving a "more readable" document, Sharon Herbstreit for her support in the feedback process, Senana Brugger for her pertinent formal appreciations and Lukas Garcia-Lange for his advice on the use of AI.

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