+44 1300 500008Editor-in-Chief
In-Ju Kim
Editor-in-Chief
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering
University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Biography
Dr. In-Ju Kim is an Assistant Professor and research coordinator of the Department of Physical Therapy at University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Kim received his PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia and had worked several Universities and research institutes in Australia, the UK and the USA. He is also an industry consultants in the areas of slips, trips and falls, occupational safety and injury prevention. Dr. Kim’s teaching and research expertise are in the areas of ergonomics, biomechanics, occupational safety, and sports injury prevention. He is a research unit leader of virtual reality laboratory and developing research projects on the areas of virtual reality based rehabilitation science and human performance technology. He is also a co-leader of sports injury surveillance and prevention research unit and developing research project on national sports injury surveillance and prevention system. His publications and presentation were in the areas of slip, trip and fall incidents, construction industry safety and injury prevention.
Research Interest
Ergonomics, biomechanics, occupational safety, and sports injury prevention
Faramarz Helali
Editor-in-Chief
Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences
Lulea University of Technology, Lulea, Sweden
Biography
Faramarz Helali is Technology Ph.D., Human Work Science and Engeering Licentiate , Industrial Ergonomics at Luleå University of Technology, and also, M.Sc. and B.Sc. Industrial Management in Iran. He has more than 18 years active career as industrial manager, and also over 19 years ergonomics and Human Factors research study, training and learning as well as different action research-types intervention in an Industrially Developing Country with its reflection practices to IDCs.
He also played a key role in the establishment of the Ergonomics Society in Iran. He was the first Vice President Iranian Ergonomics Society (IES) that it has established in the pre-intervention phase of his Ergonomics Intervention Programme since 2001. Helali’s consideration and contribution is ergonomics as software technology, technique, ‘Know-How’ transfer that it has potential challenging in IDCs. He has investigated and mentioned ‘what are challenges?’ ‘What are adjustments?’ And also what are development and testing of systematic techniques for ergonomic intervention in the IDC and the further research study? For universal applicability – generalizability - of findings and recommendations: See, his publications.
Research Interest
His special areas of interest are Ergonomics and Human Factors Knowledge transfer to organizations; Systemic Macroergonomics Intervention Work; Organizational Design and Management (ODAM), Participatory Ergonomics; Appreciative Macroergonomics; Organizational Development and Productivity; Pedagogical Development; Learning theories; Action Learning; Action Research-types Intervention; Industrially Developing Countries (IDCs); Reflection Practices. Mode 2 & Mode 3 of Knowledge.
Rabiul Ahasan
Editor-in-Chief
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Engineering,
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Biography
After few years of military career in 17 Field Ambulance, Dr Rabiul Ahasan is teaching semester courses and conducting research collaborating with private and public industries and companies for developing occupational health, safety and ergonomic initiatives. He also supervises graduate students in the field of occupational and environmental medicine.
Research Interest
Body mechanics, human movement, musculoskeletal disorders, posture, sports medicine, human kinetics, military ergonomics, orthopedics