[IUFRO Div 3] Call for abstracts of No. 154

Dear colleagues, I am happy to inform you the call for abstracts of our mid-term meeting in Freiburg. Mid-term Meeting of IUFRO RG3.03.00 Session No.154 "Sustainable and Constructive Strategy of Ergonomic Research in Forestry" in the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress, Freiburg, Germany: 19-22 September, 2017 Deadline for Submissions: 30 November 2016. RG3.03.00 invites submissions of abstracts for oral and poster presentations for our session. Please submit from (http://iufro2017.com/call-for-abstracts/) The future role of ergonomic research increases its importance under current global forest and forestry conditions. The need of forest ergonomic solutions is obviously visible in the topics of: work accidents, physical or psychological burdens, machine operation techniques, occupational health, forestry labor, aging, training and education, decision making, management sense, social roles, care for environment, and so on. In contrary, numbers of the ergonomic researchers in forestry have decreased. This problem could be triggered by the fact that forest ergonomic education has been implemented insufficiently. Only few universities or colleges that majoring in forest and forestry provide lecture (and laboratory) discussing forest ergonomics. In this mid-term meeting, we will mainly discuss to how to foster future ergonomic researchers, and propose publishing a world standard forest ergonomic textbook for world forest ergonomic education. Secondly, we will discuss strategy to reduce working accidents from forest and forestry operations as a world critical problem. Coordinator of IUFRO RG3.03.00 Prof. Dr. Yozo Yamada Graduate School of Agriculture, Ehime University 3-5-7 Tarumi, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8566, Japan Tel & Fax: +81-89-946-9665 E-mail: yamada.yozo.fi(a)ehime-u.ac.jp