Company Profile
Company Overview
The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society is the world's largest nonprofit individual-member, multidisciplinary scientific association for human factors/ergonomics professionals, with more than 4,600 members globally. HFES members include psychologists and other scientists, designers, and engineers, all of whom have a common interest in designing systems and equipment to be safe and effective for the people who operate and maintain them.
Company History
The Human Factors Society of America was voted into official existence on September 25, 1957, at the first official meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma. About 100 human factors practitioners were in attendance. The name was changed at the 1958 annual meeting to The Human
Factors Society, Inc., and then, in 1992, to the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.