The New Zealand Ergonomics Society’s 16th Conference 2010 will take place at the Grand Mercure Monaco Apartments, NELSON, New Zealand
 

The Grand Mercure Monaco is a beautifully presented handcrafted village with a quirky charm – check out their facilities on www.monacoresort.co.nz . It is situated in the heart of sunny Nelson, 5 minutes from the airport and 15 minutes from the central city. The resort is handy to the WOW World of Wearable Art and Collectable Cars Museum and the delights of Tahunanui Beach. Nelson is famed for its wine, food, art and proximity to three beautiful national parks - see www.nelsonnz.com for more information.

Michael Quinlan

is professor in the School of Organisation and Management at The University of New South Wales and is also honorary professor in the Work and Health Research Team, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney.

He is one of the leading researchers in Occupational Health and Safety and has published extensively in scientific journals, government reports, books, and magazines.

Michael’s research has focused on the connection between work organisation (including labour market structures, demographics, management strategies and systems and worker/union involvement) and health outcomes as well as regulatory, community and policy responses to this.

He is particularly interested in the interaction between changing work arrangements (the growth of precarious employment) and health, especially with regard to already vulnerable groups (immigrants, women, younger and older workers). He has undertaken a number of inquiries/investigations for governments, including safety in long haul trucking (for the NSW government), the fatal rockfall at the Beaconsfield gold mine (for the Tasmanian government) and two reviews (on ComCare and Safe Pay in Trucking) for the Australian federal government.

Tim Bentley

Tim is a Professor in Management and Ergonomics and Associate Head of School within the School of Management at Massey University. He is also Director of the Healthy Work Group – a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Massey and elsewhere interested in psychosocial factors in workplace health and safety. Tim has been a Principal Investigator for the Health Research Council of NZ, and led a recently completed multidisciplinary government-funded project concerned with workplace bullying and stress in NZ workplaces.  Tim is Scientific Editor for the international journal, Applied Ergonomics.  He has published widely on a range of subjects, with almost 100 peer-review publications, and has a particular interest in the role of organisational issues in occupational health and safety. Prior to Massey, Tim was Director of the Centre for Human Factors and Ergonomics (COHFE).  He holds a Masters degree and PhD in Ergonomics from Loughborough University in the UK