This paper argues that it would be useful for ergonomics and experienced English Language Teaching (ELT)
professionals to collaborate as this would be of substantial interest to both sets of professionals. The ongoing debate in ELT on
International English (IE) might usefully help to guide ergonomics if and when they require to judge that English is used at
appropriately high levels in the workplace in non-English speaking countries. It may also help ergonomics who are non-native
speakers (NNSs) of English to gain greater access to the top specialist journals and to found new e-journals on Ergonomics in
English that deserve international recognition. At the same time ELT specialists would have great interest in advising
ergonomics on these matters, in part, as a means of testing current hypotheses on the tendencies for new varieties of English to
develop and win acceptance both from native and non-native speakers of English as setting standards of communicative
competence in English both for end users of English in their professional lives and for well-structured and clear written
academic debate.