A review of the background information that led to this study and the subsequent goals established for the project. Methods The process used to collect postural, discomfort, and performance data pre-and post-implementation of split keyboard. Participants 80 employees participated in the study. The characteristics of the population are presented. The postural, discomfort, and performance outcome...

Ergonomic practice increases the productivity, quality, and longevity of the dermatologic surgeon. When used properly, magnification devices can be ergonomic and beneficial additions to the dermatologic surgeon's practice. Herein, we review the available magnification options for the dermatologic surgeon and evaluate the options based on cost, design, and functional advantages and disadvantages...

This review article outlines the physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic and psychosocial occupational health hazards of mining and associated metallurgical processes. Mining remains an important industrial sector in many parts of the world and although substantial progress has been made in the control of occupational health hazards, there remains room for further risk reduction. This applies...

BACKGROUND Both low back pain (LBP) and neck pain (NP) are major occupational health problems. In the workplace, participatory ergonomics (PE) is frequently used on musculoskeletal disorders. However, evidence on the effectiveness of PE to prevent LBP and NP obtained from randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is scarce. This study evaluates the process of the Stay@Work participatory ergonomics pr...

Human figure models are commonly used to facilitate ergonomic assessments of vehicle driver stations and other workplaces. One routine method of workstation assessment is to conduct a suite of ergonomic analyses using a family of boundary manikins, chosen to represent a range of anthropometric extremes on several dimensions. The suitability of the resulting analysis depends both on the methods ...

This paper presents a formal framework for the development of interactive software that bridges the gap between ergonomic knowledge and software design. It builds upon previous work on formal notations and proposes an integrated development process from requirements to model-based execution. It also embeds ergonomic knowledge in requirements, and proposes a way to formally represent them and to...

The paper describes the application of a simulation based ergonomic evaluation. Within a pilot project, the algorithms of the screening method of the European Assembly Worksheet were transferred into an existing digital human model. Movement data was recorded with an especially developed hybrid Motion Capturing system. A prototype of the system was built and is currently being tested at the Vol...

The goal of this study was to comprehensively identify ergonomic constraints among nursing workers in two public hospitals in Brazil. We used a qualitative research design and conducted interviews, field observation and performed a subjective questionnaire with nurses of emergency care sectors. The Cronbach α technique was used to determine the internal consistency of the questionnaire. Based o...

Ergonomic vs. Ergonomics: acknowledging the etymology Neil Mansfield, Roger Haslam, Mark Young, Sue Hignett, Richard So, Thurman Lockhart, Stephen Bao, Neville Stanton & Wen-Ruey Chang To cite this article: Neil Mansfield, Roger Haslam, Mark Young, Sue Hignett, Richard So, Thurman Lockhart, Stephen Bao, Neville Stanton & Wen-Ruey Chang (2013) Ergonomic vs. Ergonomics: acknowledging the etymolog...

This paper reports on the work that has been done by the teams above within the EvalWeb project. The work presented here describes how ergonomic rules, that are valid for the design of graphical user interfaces, should be refined and extended in order to be suitable for the ergonomic design and evaluation of web sites. To this end a distinction is made between web user interfaces and classical ...