Talk Title: Safety & Productivity Enhancement through Ergonomics Development (SPEED)
Speaker: Prof. Alma Maria Jennifer A. Gutierrez, Associate Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, De La Salle University – Manila
Where: Rm 331, Mechanical Engineering Building (MC), 5 King’s College Road
When: Thursday December 12th, 2019, 10:30 a.m.
Abstract: The Safety & Productivity Enhacement through Ergonomics Development (SPEED) was developed as a method for performing ergonomics audit for offices. It discusses the development of the framework as dictated by past experiences.Complaints obtained from office workers present a variety of issues that can provide ergonomists an accurate picture of ergonomic hazards or concerns in the office. Office ergonomics issues vary between countries because of the unique characteristics in working conditions and situations.
Bio sketch: Dr. Gutierrez is the current chair (2016-present) and Associate Professor of the Industrial Engineering Department at De La Salle University. She is also an ASEAN engineer. She held leadership positions in the University such as being the Department Chairperson (AY2006-2007) and Vice Chairperson (AY2003- 2006; AY2010-2012) of the Industrial Engineering Department. She is also the current Vice President of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of the Philippines (HFESP) and the Associate Director of DLSU’s Human Factors and Ergonomics Center. She has published several papers in International and local journals in the areas of ergonomics and safety. She published in the International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics and International Journal of Aviation Psychology – both ISI-journal. Aside from this she has a book chapter in the Human Factors and Ergonomics in Consumer Product Design published by CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group. She has done numerous ergonomics projects specifically the introduction of the SPEED (Safety Productivity Enhancement through Ergonomics Development) program to Australian, Norwegian, Canadian Embassy and Nestle Philippines. Her PhD dissertation is on Affective Design of Eco-labels.
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