The Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo) investigates potentials and risks of modern work on the basis of behavioral and life sciences. The results lead to principles of beneficial and healthy design of the working environment.
Our Core topics
Working humans in technical environments
Challenge of work and ageing
Outer and inner factors for wellbeing and performance at work
Safe handling of chemicals in modern working environments
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Improving the welfare of animals: Researchers develop computer-aided models to replace animal testing
Every year, October 4 is all about the protection of animals. On World Animal Day, animal welfare organisations around the globe advocate the respectful treatment and welfare of animals. One of the central demands of the animal activists is to abolish animal testing and to use alternative testing methods instead. Also scientists of the IfADo are here actively involved (more...)
Impact of solvent mixtures on neurobehavioral performance
The IfADo-meta analysis about the impact of solvent mixtures on neurobehavioral performance (review: Meyer-Baron et al., 2008) raises actual interest and became the most downloaded article of the journal Neuro Toxicology in 2013 (more...).
The organophosphate Monocrotophos
as cause of the India school lunch deaths
An editorial to be published in Archives of Toxicology by members of the ESNATS consortium (mehr...).