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Associate Professor
DProf.(Trans Stud), MHlthSc, GDipOHS, GCertFlexLearn, FSIA, MHFESA, MICOH, RSP(Aust.)
National President, OHS Educators' Chapter, Safety Institute of Australia
International Chair, Scientific Committee on Education & Training in Occupational Health, International Commission on Occupational Health
Member SIA National Technical Panel, SIA College of Fellows Advisory Board
SIA representative, Australian Standards Committee, SF-021 Human Factors
International Ergonomics Association – EQUID Project (Ergonomics Quality In Design) - Accreditation criteria and process Committee, http://www.iea.cc/events/equid.cfm,
International Commission on Occupational Health - Scientific Committee on Work and Vision http://users.unimi.it/workvis/icoh_sc.htm
Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Panel, Human Factors in Engineering Professional Network, Institution of Electrical Engineers IEE UK http://www.iee.org/oncomms/pn/humanfactors/aboutus.cfm
National Executive Committee Member, Australasian Association for Engineering Education http://www.aaee.com.au/about/executiv.htm#meet, Co-Editor, Australasian Journal for Engineering Education, Awards Coordinator (2004-2008)
Safety Institute of Australia
Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia
Australasian Association for Engineering EducationInternational Commission on Occupational Health
International Network for Engineering Education and Research
Assoc. Professor, Human Factors & Systems Safety
Discipline Lead, Human Factors & Safety Science
Leader, Safety Science & Human Factors Design Research Group & Chief Investigator, Centre for Railway Engineering
Leader, Discipline Research (Population Health), School of Health & Human Services
Leader, Industrial & Enviornmental Health Theme, CQUniversity Collaborative Research Network
Co-Developer, Accident Investigation program suite
2005 Excellence in Engineering Education Award, Curriculum Innovation, Australasian Association for Engineering Education, A model for transdisciplinary teaching and learning
2005 Best Web Quest Award, International Award for Best WebQuest, A Quest for a safer and healthier workplace
2005 Finalist, Best Scientific Paper, CybErg 2005, International Cyberspace Conference on Ergonomics (and invitation by Editor to publish in International Journal Industrial Ergonomics)
2003 Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, CQUniversity, Australia
2002 Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, James Goldston Faculty of Engineering & Physical Systems
2002 Highly Commended, Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty of Arts, Health & Sciences
1999 Finalist, Best Scientific Paper, CybErg 1999, International Cyberspace Conference on Ergonomics (and invitation by Editor to publish in International Journal Industrial Ergonomics)
Noorudheen, N, McClanachan, M & Toft, Y 2012, 'Track worker safety: investigating the contributing factors and technology solutions' in M. Dhanasekar, T. Constable, & D. Schonfeld (eds.) Global Perspectives RTSA CORE 2012: Conference on Railway Engineering: Conference Proceedings, 10th - 12th September, 2012, Brisbane, The Railway Technical Society of Austrlasia (RTSA), Canberra, Australia.
Day, R, Toft, Y & Kift, R 2011, 'Error-proofing the design process to prevent design-induced errors in safety-critical situations' in R Mitchell (ed.) Synergy in Sydney: creating and maintaining partnerships: proceedings of the 47th Annual Conference of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia, Inc., 7th - 9th November, 2011, Sydney, Australia.
Day, R, Toft, Y & Kift, R 2011, 'Minimising railway control room errors resulting from the interplay of design process errors and design-induced human errors' paper presented to the 3rd International Conference on Railway Engineering and Asia Pacific Rail Conference 2011,14th - 16th April, Hong Kong.
Thomsen, W, Toft, Y, Howard, P & , 2010, 'Towards affordable safer level crossings: analysis of self reported driver behaviour at passive level crossings' in CORE 2010 Conference on Railway Engineering : Rail - Rejuvenation and Renaissance. Conference Proceedings, Wellington, New Zealand, 12-15 September, 2010, pp. 571-578.
Crawford, E, Toft, Y, Kift, R & Crawford, C 2010, 'Entering the conceptual age: implications for control room operators and safety' in J Wood (ed) ICOCO 2010 International control room design Conference: Conference Proceedings. 25th - 26th October, Paris, France, The Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors, Leicester, UK, pp. 238-245.
Crawford, E, Toft, Y & Kift, R 2010, 'New technology adoption: risky business for the railways' in Burgess-Limerick, Robin (eds.) Editor, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc. 46th Annual Conference 31st October - 3rd November, 2010, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc., Sydney, pp. 105-114, http://www.ergonomics.org.au/downloads/HFESA_2010_Conf_Proceedings/HFESA2010proceedings-compressed.pdf.
Howard, P & Toft, Y 2009, 'A view from the fringe �� transdiciplinarity and the journey of the devox', paper presented to the 20th Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education: Engineering the Curriculum, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 6-9 December, 2009, pp. 84-90.
Toft, Y & Howard, P 2009, 'Virtuous reality: the development of safe design through transdisciplinary teams', paper presented to the 116th Annual Conference & Exposition of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Howard, P & Toft, Y 2009, 'Influencing student designers towards safe design: transdisciplinarity and the journey of the devox' in Llewellyn Mann and Roger Hadgraft (eds.) 2009 Research in Engineering Education Symposium. Cairns, Qld, 20 - 23 July 2009. http://rees2009.pbworks.com/f/rees2009_submission_89.pdf (viewed 17/5/10)
Howard, P & Toft, Y 2005, 'An information source for improving safe design decisions', paper presented at IICA2005 - From Sensors to the Boardroom., Melbourne.
Howard, P & Toft, Y 2004, 'A transdisciplinary approach to reducing workplace injury through the use of coronial reports', in Snook, C & Thorpe, D (eds) Creating Flexible Learning Environments : Proceedings of the 15th Australasian Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education and the 10th Australasian Women in Engineering Forum, 27th-29th September 2004, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, pp. 461-469.
Toft, Y M & Howard, P 2003, 'The lions, the which and the wardrobe.', in L Moxham, K M Douglas, T Dwyer, S Walker & J Wooller (eds), Discovery : discovering research, discovering teaching & learning, discovering self : 2003 Women in Research Conference Proceedings, Central Queensland University, 13-14 November 2003, Rockhampton, Queensland. pp. 1-15. http://hdl.cqu.edu.au/10018/3152
Sturgess, P, Reaburn, P, Toft, Y, Marsh, P, Stehlik, D & Moxham, L 2002, 'Problem based learning online: making the technology work', in Proceedings of WebCT Asia Pacific 2002 conference, 25-27 March 2002, Melbourne, Victoria.
Toft, Y, Moxham, L & Jorgensen, D 2001, 'An inter-disciplinary, flexible learning, project based design module' in L Dawes, W Boles & A Maeder (eds.) Towards excellence in engineering education, Proceedings of the 12th Australasian conference on engineering education: 7th Australasian women in engineering forum. Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Queensland, 26th-28th September, Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, pp. 457-462.
Toft, Y M, Howard, P & Jorgensen, D 2003, 'Changing paradigms for professional engineering practice towards safe design - an Australian perspective', Safety Science, vol. 41, no. 13, pp. 263-276.
Piccoli, B 2003, 'A critical appraisal of current knowledge and future directions of ergophthalmology: consensus document of the ICOH committee on 'Work and Vision'', Ergonomics, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 348-406.
Toft, Y , Howard, P & Jorgensen, D 2003, 'Human-centred engineers - a model for holistic interdisciplinary communication and professional practice', International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 195-202.
Madsen, W 2012, Showing and Growing Community Resilience in Theodore : community based participatory research project into community resilience in the wake of the 2010/11 floods project, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Qld., http://hdl.cqu.edu.au/10018/923645
Current: Project Leader, Population Research Grant Scheme, Population Research Laboratory (PRL) Queensland Social Survey Grant 2009, Road user attitudes and perceptions related to rail level crossing safety and use in rural and urban environments, $15,000 (2009)
Current: Project Leader, National Competitive Grant, Australian Learning & Teaching Council - Disciplinary Scoping grant, Safe Guarding Australians: Mapping the strengths, challenges and gaps toward sustainable improvements in learning outcomes from diverse models of OHS education. $99,567 (2008-2009)
Current: Deputy Project Leader, National Competitive Grant, CRC Rail, (DZ6) "New affordable level crossing protection systems for crossings in regional areas and occupational crossings in areas with high speed passenger trains", $226,248 (2009-2011)
Current: Deputy Project Leader, National Competitive Grant, CRC Rail, (N1) "Analytical tools for human factors evaluation of new in-cab and train control technologies", $399,000 (2008-2010)
Current: Researcher, Queensland Health, Trauma Research Grant, "Development of Integrated Trauma Management System for Head Injury", $100,000 (2008-2011)
Prevention through Design (Safe Design)
Mitigating latent sources of human error in engineering design
Optimising the engineering design process for sustainable outcomes
Learning from failure - nexus systems safety, human error & higher order controls
Tools and methods in accident analysis and error prediction
Transdisciplinary education, problem solving, teams and communication
Optimising communities of practice, PBL and cooperative learning in online environments
Professional practice paradigms and education in OHS, Ergonomics and Engineering