Developing and leading national and international research & product development projects related to building (construction, greenhouse technology, energy). Close co-operation with companies and government. Open eye for mutual benefits and sharing of good practices between companies. Topics:• Performance modelling of buildings• Ventilation and air quality• Building technology (climate and energy management, advanced sensors), esp. in greenhouses• Solar technology (PV) on buildings and other constructions

Managing and carrying out national and European projects to investigate and improve occupational, process and external safety in high-risk industry, including incidents and accidents. Close co-operation with companies and with government. Open eye for mutual benefits and sharing of good practices between companies. The topics are closely related:• Zero vision: investigation of factors that affect successful implementation of a zero accidents vision; promoting the zero accidents network in NL. See www.zeroaccidents.nl. • Safety Culture: assessment of company safety culture; process and tools to improve (organisational) learning from incidents. See http://publications.tno.nl/publication/100304/P0Ow35/zwetsloot-2012-quick.pdf.• Improving safety together: cooperation and communication with contractors and with the customer or the principal, especially in the building sector (see e.g. www.partnersinveiligbouwen.nl); development of an electronic guide for good practices related to work-related vehicle risks (http://osha-vesafe.mainstrat.com/).• Incident investigation: usually in more complex situations in which organizational factors, human factors and technical issues play an intertwined role.• Language and safety: good practices to handle language differences in high-risk industry, with a focus on suppliers of technical personnel (contractors).

Managing and carrying out projects to investigate and improve patient safety in hospitals, home care, and integrated care, thereby building partnerships with healthcare organisations (all organisational levels) and medical and supporting professionals.

Supporting medical device industry in the fields of:• Developing a product and building the company to achieve EU CE-certification• Structured Design & Development of Medical Devices• Risk Management in product and process development life cycle;• Quality management

Supporting hospitals and home care organisations in the fields of:• Quality & Safety management for technology in healthcare, combining top-down and bottom-up approaches;• Structured Risk Management in the technology life cycle and related organisational processes.

Process Validation in medical device and pharmaceutical industry: basic training and on-site consultancy. FDA- and GHTF-approach as a basis. Strongly linked with Quality and Risk Management.

Scientific investigation into physical properties of echo and physiotherapy devices and their output beams. Working on international standardisation (IEC) for ultrasound devices for medical use.