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Your log book
The Log Book and Reports
Your log book is a key part of an application as it demonstrates to the assessors the ergonomics work that you have undertaken.
The log book must cover your qualifying period (3 years with a qualifying degree, 4 years without) and contain separate record sheets for a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 20 projects.
a) the projects in the log book must be of sufficient significance to demonstrate to the assessors your ergonomics input to the project
b) they must also demonstrate your development as an ergonomist over the qualifying period
c) the total time spent on those projects must be a minimum of 100 days for each year of qualifying experience (pro rata for part-time candidates)
d) the minimum period of mentored work in the log book should be 150 days (with qualifying degree) or 300 days (without)
Separate details should be kept of any formal training or education you have received.
We provide some log book examples to give you guidance in the level of detail required in the log book to satisfy the assessors that your knowledge and competence levels meet the criteria required for successful Registered Member accreditation. Mentor's comments are included to provide guidance to mentors on the amount of detail required in the mentor's report; assessor's comments are provided to give feedback against the log books.
What to put in your log book
Each record in your log book should comprise:
- a brief summary, perhaps with detailed documentation as an appendix
- discussion of the salient components of the human factors/ergonomics involved
- discussion of the salient personal and professional/technical skills involved
- critique of the successful and less successful features
You should ensure that your log book does not include any sensitive information (e.g. client names or project names) to make the entry totally non-attributable. When you are providing details of your personal involvement try to give an indication of your degree of responsibility, level of authority and description of your role.
When you provide the details of the human factors involved try to provide a list of reports that you have produced (sanitised as appropriate). Provide the names of particular tools and techniques that you have used where appropriate and describe the methods you employed. Don't forget to include any reference to conference proceedings or journal articles relating to your log book entry. A list of publications is sufficient.
See further information on mentoring.
Reports
To provide detailed information about some of the work in your log book, you will need to submit examples of your project reports. You don't have to provide one from each of your log book entries, a selection of 3 or 4 will suffice. A good guide would be one report from each year you were mentored, and one from each other year in the qualifying period (that is, 3 or 4 reports altogether).