Occupational hazards exist, if the design of the work situation is not in accordance with ergonomic design principles. At assembly lines ergonomics is applied to the design of work equipment and tasks and to work organisation. The ignoring of ergonomic principles in planning and design of assembly work leads to unfavourable working posture, action force and material handling. Disorders of the m...

Improper application of an ergonomic analysis tool increases the likelihood of high-risk jobs not being detected, thus jeopardising worker’s health. Likewise, significant time and cost may be incurred by redesigning jobs improperly identified as high risk. Utah Intelligent Data Driven Ergonomic Assessment System (IDDEAS) is an expert system that aggregates the outputs of multiple analysis tools...

INTRODUCTION Ergonomic interventions designed for office and computer work have become widely available and heavily marketed but there is little evidence to support their use with workers who already have a musculoskeletal disorder (MSD). The purpose of any ergonomic intervention can be to improve worker comfort, safety and/or productivity. The ergonomic research in secondary prevention typical...

In manufacturing, control of ergonomic risks at manual workplaces is a necessity commanded by legislation, care for health of workers and economic considerations. Methods for estimating ergonomic risks of workplaces are integrated into production routines at most firms that use the assembly-type of production. Assembly line re-balancing, i.e., re-assignment of tasks to workers, is an effective ...

objectives: this study aimed to evaluate and analyze the ergonomic behaviors order to select the best work shift group in an iranian petrochemical company, in 2010. methods: the methodology was based on the ergonomic behavior sampling (ebs), and performed using electre method. in this study 1147 behaviors were observed. results: the results indicated that 43.6% of workers’ behaviors were unergo...

Ergonomic interventions (physical and organisational) are used to prevent or reduce low back pain (LBP) and neck pain among workers. We conducted a systematic review of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the effectiveness of ergonomic interventions. A total of 10 RCTs met the inclusion criteria. There was low to moderate quality evidence that physical and organisational ergonomic interventi...

Job, organizational and individual predictors of a successful implementation of an ergonomic training program were evaluated in a single-case study. The conceptual model of learning transfer of Baldwin and Ford (1988) was adapted for an ergonomic context. 116 employees in a large production company underwent a comprehensive ergonomic training. Transfer of training into practice was measured by ...

The "Corpus Ergonomicus" consists of a multi-purpose design guide containing ergonomic rules (or guidelines) that are considered useful to improve human-machine interaction. 3,700 ergonomic rules have been extracted from 938 bibliographic references, gathered, translated, reformulated and organised according to a general ergonomic rule model. Twenty seven problems encountered when applying ergo...

The lack of effective preventive measures can lead to occupational diseases and accidents at work. For the correct identification treatment these risks, GUT matrix is a tool for prioritizing problems risks by attributing notes aspects gravity, urgency, tendency. This work elaborated particularized environmental raised in university hospital's industrial kitchen. was developed Food Nutrition Uni...

Ergonomic Tridimensional Analysis (ETdA) is a new ergonomic approach that makes possible the identification and description of several ergonomic contexts defined by common areas where clients or consumers are subject to similar activities normally carried out by professionals. The development of this decision tool includes several steps, such as conceptualization of the problem, definition of t...