Conventional and improved methods of aonla pricking were evaluated ergonomically on an experiment conducted for 20 minute with women workers. The working heart rate, energy expenditure rate, total cardiac cost of work and physiological cost of work with conventional tools varied from 93-102 beats.min-1, 6-7.5 kJ.min-1, 285-470 beats, 14 -23 beats.min-1 while with machine varied from 96-105 beat...

The expansion of sugarcane monoculture in Brazil in the last decades has pointed out to the necessity of considering the question of sugarcane cutters occupational health. In this work we present a cross-sectional study aiming to examine the occupational posture of a group of sugarcane cutters, which work in a cane field located in the region of Pontal do Paranapanema- SP, Brazil. The study was...

An important role carried out by cyber-security experts is the assessment of proposed computer systems, during their design stage. This task is fraught with difficulties and uncertainty, making the knowledge provided by human experts essential for successful assessment. Today, the increasing number of progressively complex systems has led to an urgent need to produce tools that support the expe...

This paper examines the potential use of Kinect™ range sensor in observational methods for assessing postural loads. Range sensors can detect the position of the joints at high sampling rates without attaching sensors or markers directly to the subject under study. First, a computerized OWAS ergonomic assessment system was implemented to permit the data acquisition from Kinect™ and data process...

The brick industry is an where almost all of the processes are done traditionally. Workers' body postures when working often not ergonomic, so there a risk causing muskuloskeletal complaints. This study aims to determine effect work posture on musculoskeletal complaints in workers Kasreman Village, Kandangan District, Kediri Regency. type research analytic observational with cross-sectional app...

Stonecutting and setting are important tasks in a construction site. A field study was conducted to assess occupational-related disorders and to conduct ergonomics assessment among stonecutters. The study focused on (a) the duration of work per day, (b) the working environment and working activities and (c) the feeling of discomfort in different parts of the body. A detailed posture analysis wa...

Motivated by the common academic problem of allocating papers to referees for conference reviewing we propose a novel mechanism for solving the assignment problem when we have a two sided matching problem with preferences from one side (the agents/reviewers) over the other side (the objects/papers) and both sides have capacity constraints. The assignment problem is a fundamental problem in both...

Amaç: Personellerin çalışma hayatlarının ve ortamlarının iyileştirilmesi için ergonomik risk oluşturan iş ortamların personelin verimini artırmaktadır. Bu çalışmada ısı rezistans üretimi yapan bir fabrikada üretim süreci incelenip değerlendirilmesi yapılmıştır.Yöntem: Egonomik değerlendirme yöntemlerinden olan REBA, NIOSH, OWAS OCRA yöntemleri kullanılarak riskli duruşlarının olduğu görevlerin ...