Are you passionate about ergonomics? Do you want to meet with other passionate ergonomists, and celebrate National Ergonomics Month among friends? Then you want to join the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, an organization founded in 1957 to “promote the discovery and exchange of knowledge concerning the characteristics of human beings that are applicable to the design of systems and devices of all kinds.”HFES is one of the 42 members of the International Ergonomics Association, a group that supports the exchange of ideas and a standardized understanding of ergonomics across the globe. In 2000, the IEA came up with a universally-accepted definition of ergonomics. HFES has accomplished plenty on its own, as well. It publishes Human Factors (bimonthly), Ergonomics in Design (quarterly), and the HFES Bulletin (monthly). The society hosts annual meetings and cosponsors others and, perhaps most importantly, helps to establish American national standards (in collaboration with the American National Standards Institute). HFES’s 1988 publication of the American National Standard for Human Factors Engineering of Visual Display Terminal Workstations was a highly influential work that set up voluntary guidelines for ergonomically designing computer workstations. The society later revised this standard in 2007.What about that National Ergonomics Month I mentioned earlier? HFES has declared every October as National Ergonomics Month, during which it sponsors grassroots activities to educate schools and companies about ergonomic principles. These events are held across the worldthe HFES 54^th Annual Meeting, which kicked off this year’s National Ergonomics Month, was held in San Francisco, CA from September 27-October 1, while the Association of Canadian Ergonomists (ACE) 41^st Annual Conference was held in Kelowna, BC. The HFES Europe Chapter Annual Conference took place at the Technische Universitt Berlin in Berlin, Germany.HFES members get free annual subscriptions to the society’s publications, unlimited free access to the society’s digital archives, a subscription to the society’s career center, discounts from related publishers, and more. Current college students can enroll for 35, while all others can join for 195.