proposing a robust designed facility location is one of the most effective ways to hedge against unexpected disruptions and failures in a transportation network system. this paper considers the combined facility location/network design problem with regard to transportation link disruptions and develops a mixed integer linear programming formulation to model it. with respect to the probability o...

Much of the published human factors work on risk is to do with safety and within this is concerned with prediction and analysis of human error and with human reliability assessment. Less has been published on human factors contributions to understanding and managing project, business, engineering and other forms of risk and still less jointly assessing risk to do with broad issues of 'safety' a...

Employers and workers need concrete guidance to plan and implement changes in the ergonomics of computer workstations. The Näppärä method is a screening tool for identifying problems requiring further assessment and corrective actions. The aim of this study was to assess the work of occupational safety and health (OSH) government inspectors who used Näppärä as part of their OSH enforcement insp...

anthropometric data are used for proper design of workstation, equipment, furniture. mismatch between anthropometric dimensions and consumer products may cause health problems in human body. in this study we measured anthropometric dimensions of iranian university students in order to create a data bank for furniture design. the purpose was to measure some anthropometric dimensions of universit...

Once the challenge of developing and trading national cars has been overcome, the new challenge becomes the accessibility/costs ratio. The answer to it was 1.000 cc engine cars which are called popular cars in Brazil. Nowadays, this segment represents over 50.0% of the Brazilian fleet. Economical issues are the major concern in the Brazilian market, rather than attributes like safety, comfort a...

In industrially developing countries (IDC), small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for the highest proprotion of employment. Unfortunately, the working conditions in SMEs are often very poor and expose employees to a potentially wide range of health and safety risks. This paper presents a comprehensive review of 161 articles related to ergonomics application in SMEs, using Indonesia as a c...

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...

This paper presents a framework for ecological function allocations and optimization matching solutions for a human-machine interface with intelligent characteristics by “who does what, when and how” consideration. As a highlighted example in nature-social system, intelligent transportation system has been playing increasingly role in keeping traffic safety, our research is concerned with ident...

Abstract Mutual adaptation and inter-changeability of system elements are very important prerequisites for machines, technical devices products. Similar to that compatibility which can be achieved by standards regulations, optimum design human-oriented workplaces or a man-machine cannot attained without, e.g., compatible arrangement connected displays controls. Over above those stimulus/respons...