Dr Andrew (Andy) Imada - Participatory HFE and Lessons learned

Sharon Todd and Dr Andrew S. Imada discuss the Implementation of HFE and the lessons learned in his experience as a Consultant.

Dr Andy Imada is a macroergonomics consultant specializing in human and organizational change. He works with people and organizations to change their cultures, respond to scalability demands, implement disruptive technologies and survive generational transitions. He helps them meet these challenges by balancing organizational, safety, quality, and human needs.

Dr. Imada has provided consulting services to a wide range of clients including: AT&T, Aramark, British Columbia Telephone, Chevron Products Company, Chevron Production Company, Hamersley Iron, Iron Mountain, Los Angeles Dodgers, NASA, PG&E, Sheraton Hotels, Pacific Coast Building Products, Sierra Nevada Brewing, Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, U.S. Army, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. He served as Senior Scientific Advisor for the Steelcase User Center Design Group and worked on projects advising the National Research Council, International Labour Office, and the University of California.

He is a Certified Professional Ergonomist and has served as President of both the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society http://www.hfes.org and the International Ergonomics Association, http://www.iea.cc/ which represents 49 federated societies and more than 25,000 ergonomists.  He received the Ergonomics Practitioner of the Year Award in 2016 from the Foundation for Professional Ergonomics. Dr. Imada won the 1998 Liberty Mutual Prize and the 2000 Liberty Mutual Medal in international competitions for occupational safety and ergonomics research. 

Dr. Imada was a Professor of Ergonomics and Safety Sciences at the University of Southern California for 19 years. He also served as the Director of the USC Safety Science Center and the International Distance Learning Liaison at the USC Center for Scholarly Technology. He has published extensively and edited a book entitled, “Participatory Ergonomics”. He was a visiting scholar at Luleå University in Sweden where he taught graduate courses on participatory strategies for improving safety, ergonomics and productivity. 

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