Being ergonomics a scientific discipline based on knowledge of several areas, it is important to use education methodologies that promote critical thinking and reflective during the educational process. The article discusses the importance of interdisciplinarity in undergraduate courses in health care in particular in disciplines that address the ergonomics issue. The aspects of the introductio...

A national survey to investigate the use of computers by primary school children in the Republic of Ireland was carried out by postal questionnaire. Teacher education on computer related ergonomics was also investigated. Questionnaires (n=1863) were returned from 416 of the 830 schools included in the study. Almost all schools (99.7%) had computers for children’s use. The majority (89.6%) of te...

In 2005, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and Badger Mining Corporation entered a partnership to implement ergonomics interventions, including a systematic process, to address exposure to risk factors that may result in musculoskeletal disorders or other types of injuries/illnesses. As a result of this partnership, an ergonomics process was integrated with the e...

With the continuous development of economy and science, medical instrument entered the digital and informational age. Conflicts between the urgent requirement and severe lack for ergonomics in the industrial design of medical instrument products became increasingly fierce. In the present paper, we attempted to use the research achievements in the area such as product form design theory, ergonom...

An office ergonomics intervention incorporating a macroergonomics design approach was conducted to investigate the effects of a flexible workspace design and ergonomics training on musculoskeletal health, psychosocial environment and performance in a computer-based office setting. This longitudinal, field intervention study included three data collection periods (one preand two post-interventio...

The objective of this study is to design a fuzzy expert system for performance assessment of health, safety, environment (HSE) and ergonomics system factors in a gas refinery. This will lead to a robust control system for continuous assessment and improvement of HSE and ergonomics performance. The importance of this study stems from the current lack of formal integrated methodologies for interp...

The ILO has a mandate to protect workers against sickness, diseases and injuries due to workplace hazards and risks including ergonomic and work organization risk factors. One of the main functions for the ILO is to develop international standards related to labour and work. ILO standards have exerted considerable influence on the laws and regulations of member States. The ILO standards take th...

This paper describes the increasing emphasis on ergonomics in the manufacturing plants of IBM. Since 1978, 250,000 engineering hours have been devoted to ergonomics training. As a result a systematic approach to ergonomics improvement of manufacturing facilities has been implemented. This involves an analysis of the production environment including equipment, processes, ambient factors and job ...

Ergonomists and many other professionals apply ergonomics principles to musculoskeletal health problems. This study examines whether there are differences when it comes to judgement expertise concerning upper limb disorders (ULDs) between ergonomists and those with less ergonomics training. The Cochran-Weiss-Shanteau (CWS) performance index combines judgement consistency with discrimination int...

In Human Factors and Ergonomics Science (HFES), it is difficult to identify what is the best approach to tackle the workplace and systems design problems which needs to be solved, and it has been also advocated as transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary the issue of "How to solve the human factors and ergonomics problems that are identified?". The proposition on this study is to combine the the...