Meet Mark Dohrmann - an Australian ergonomist

MARK IS an Australian consulting engineer and ergonomist who has worked in occupational health and safety since 1976. His engineering skills are applied to devising inventive solutions to difficult workplace problems involving ergonomics, workplace design and injury prevention.

Left: Elizabeth and Mark Dohrmann

Mark Dohrmann AM, BE (Mech), FIE Aust, CPEng, CPE, MESA is married (to Liz), has four  children, and lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Rear, L-R (in November 2003): Ted (26); Tim (18), Tom (24)

Front, L-R:  Mark (55), Liz (guess), Alice (20)

MARK'S clients include corporations, government departments, local government authorities, unions and private companies. Since 1978 he has inspected and advised on injury prevention and risk management in several thousand establishments, and has trained over seven thousand people in safety. A recognised authority on overuse strain injury, he has provided expert evidence in over five thousand legal cases since 1978. He has publications in the fields of ergonomics, visual displays, safety and office planning, disability in employment, and slips, trips and falls.

Mark's tertiary education was in Melbourne at Loyola College (classics, history), Campion College (philosophy) and Monash University (engineering). Trained in the control of explosives, electrical and radiation hazards, he worked first as an exploration engineer in the oil and gas fields of France, the Algerian-Sahara and northern Italy.

Following further studies in ergonomics, Mark was appointed lecturer in Ergonomics at Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences, Melbourne (now La Trobe University). He directed the post-graduate ergonomics program (1975-1981), completing consulting assignments in the design of special play equipment for children with intellectual and physical disabilities, industrial professional training in ergonomics, and assisting in the resolution of industrial health and safety issues.

Mark is a frequent speaker on the ergonomic aspects of health and safety. He has travelled on assignments through the U.K., Europe, United States and China to study and lecture on industrial and occupational health and safety. He has designed management information systems, including original software, in the area of injury and accident analysis, and has received two national awards for technical communication and instruction. His interests include strain injury prevention, adult education, numismatics, genealogy, and the technical needs of people with disabilities.  These days he is very busy preparing reports used in litigation: slips, trips and falls; back, arm and shoulder strains; machinery accidents; product defects;  and motor vehicle accidents.

On the Queen's Birthday 1994, Mark was awarded the Order of Australia.

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