You are kindly invited to participate in the next Fifth International Conference on Occupational Risk Prevention ORP2007, which is going to be held at Santiago de Chile, on May 9th, 10th and 11st, 2007.

This Conference is organized by the Asociación Chilena de Segudidad (ACHS) along with the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona (ETSEIB) of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the Technological University of Tampere (TUT), the Polithecnical University of Delft (The Netherlands), and the Center of Industrial Ergonomics of the University of Louisville (USA). Also, the Government of Chile and MC Mutual of Spain collaborates in this event.

We are convinced this Fifth edition of the international conference will contribute to establish a remarkable scientific gathering in our country, due to its quality and number of participants.

We are proud to count with your collaboration in this Conference, and we urge you to motivate your colleagues to participate sharing ther researches and experiences.

• Not fulfilling dates or formats may signify the rejection of your paper. Please read the following instructions carefully.
• After sending your abstract, an ID Number will be assigned. This number is the only way to quickly locate your work and its status. Please have it ready in case you need to contact us.

No abstracts will be accepted after the deadline, and it is not going to be accepted if sent by e-mail.

Please follow the instructions detailed next.  We recommend the use of the downloadable template for Microsoft Word.

General:

• There is no limit over the number of pages for the article, but you are kindly requested to keep in mind that you should send a scientific article. During the selection process, the synthesis and clarity of the received articles will be evaluated.

Fonts and Styles:

• Normal Text: Use the font type Verdana.

• Titles and authoring: The title (Verdana, 18 points, black), the authors' names and lastname (Verdana, 10 points, black) and their addresses (Verdana, 10 points) must be written from the left margin and page-wide. Please write a contact phone number and the email for each author.

• Headings: Title in verdana, 10 points, black style in  white color over gray background, uppercase.

• References and cites: Please always write the references following this instructions: A number between brackets [1] on the text, and its correspondent reference at the end of the document (see the example). Only published and publicly accessible documents should be referenced. There may be internal reports and other kind of documents when they could be easily requested by the reader. In this case, please write down a reference address. We recommend the use of bibliographic referring software EndNote. In the next paragraph, you could find the respective instructions.

• Page numbering: Do not write down page numbers, neither page headings nor footnotes.

Bibliographic References

• References should be written single-spaced and alphabetically ordered, under the heading "References", beginning in a separated page and at the end of the document. References should be referred only to the material actually used and presented within the text.

• Please do not abbreviate journal or magazine names.

• Authors are responsible for the content of the presented papers and, therefore, the use of  material that is not accessible to general public (unpublished theses, working papers, experimental data, etc.) should be limited at the strictly essential level.

• The reference styling is based on the style recommended by Harvard at the "Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers", published by Wiley in 2002. Some citing examples are the following:

• The following are the Bibliographic references styles that must be used:

Use of the Bibliographic Reference Software EndNote

• EndNote is a software recommended for authors to simplify the processes of revision and publication. The use of bibliography management like this one may allow the automatic appliance of stiles like the one here requested.

• Here you may download the reference style for EndNote to the proceedings of any ORP conference  

• To learn more about EndNote, please visit  www.endnote.com

Abstract and Keywords

• The article should begin with an abstract of about 100 words. The abstract is a brief explanation of the article, exposing the investigated problem, the research method and its main results. Following to this, there shall be mentioned a set of words that better describe it for searching and indexing purposes.

Paragraph and Section composition

• Paragraph titles shall be written in Verdana, 10 points, bold style and with the first letter in uppercase.

• Subparagraph titles shall be written in Verdana, 10 points, cursive y and with the first letter in uppercase.

• The titles of each section shall be written in Verdana, 10 points, bold style and uppercase. Please do not number them.

• White spaces before each section must be in Verdana, 20 points. The spaces between paragraphs should be in Verdana, 10 points.

• All the elements of the document (text and exhibits) must fit within a rectangle of 15 cm x 25,7 cm, centered on a A4 sheet (21 cm x 29,7 cm). Margins are the following:

  • Upper margin: 2 cm

  • Lower margin: 2 cm

  • Left margin: 3 cm

  • Right margin: 3 cm 

• On the pages following the first one, begin your writing on the first line, caring not to leave any empty space between the upper margin and the text. All the text should be justified between the right and left margins.

Style and Content

• Please write to an international public, and observe this recommendations:

  • Use a direct and easily comprehensible style.

  • Briefly explain the technical terms you are using on your document.

  • Declare the meaning of the abbreviations when they are used for the first time on the document. For example, “UK (United Kingdom)”

  • Declare the use of the symbols, including the dating system used. Remember that they change from one country to another. For example, "1-5-99" or "5-1-99" could mean January, the fifth, or May, the first; $ may indicate dollars, pesos, as well as another currency.

• Insert your schemes and illustrations along the text while you are referring them. Insert a title in Verdana, 8 points, on each one of them. Please use low-resolution images as possible.

• If you use tables, please be sure that they are not inserted directly with its data as well. This is often the reason why documents exceed storage size and make difficult its delivery.

Tables

• It is recommended the use of simple tables, with a moderate use of color. The content will fit the Verdana typeset.

• It is also recommended to be specially careful when copying tables, because this process usually copy all the data from it was built as well. Try to insert it as an image or using another copying method.

Images and pictures

• It is recommended the use of images at medium and low resolutions (not bigger than 600 dpi), or web optimized (72 dpi), and the use of standard formats as JPEG, GIF, TIFF or BMP.

• Image size will always fit the publication's. In case that it is strictly necessary to add images bigger than that, they must be included as annexes to the article, and presented on independent archives clearly specified.

Template

• To follow the detailed instructions, please use the template available here.