Disapproving Osha's Ergonomic Standard

Ergonomic program effectiveness: ergonomic and medical intervention.

The implementation of a successful ergonomic and medical intervention program designed to reduce the number and severity of injuries and illnesses and the associated levels of discomfort in the workplace is presented. Because of the recent activity concerning the on-again-off-again Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Ergonomic Program Standard questions have been raised as to t...

Ergonomic Interventions

Ergonomic analysis of fastening vibration based on ISO Standard 5349 (2001).

Hand-held power tools used for fastening operations exert high dynamic forces on the operator's hand-arm, potentially causing injuries to the operator in the long run. This paper presents a study that analyzed the vibrations exerted by two hand-held power tools used for fastening operations with the operating exhibiting different postures. The two pneumatic tools, a right-angled nut-runner and ...

Ergonomic sustainability based on the ergonomic maturity level measurement.

This paper aims at the application of an ergonomic maturity model (EMM), in order to assess the ergonomic sustainability outreach of ergonomic actions. This proposition was motivated by the widespread sensation that the development of the discipline, its educational devices and related practices depends on the attitude of ergonomics practitioners rather than environmental macroergonomic conditi...

Using Ergonomic Rules for Evaluation by Linguistic Ergonomic Criteria

Heuristic Evaluation is a well established method for evaluating a user interface (UI) of an interactive application [1]. This method belongs to the class of informal evaluation methods since the evaluation is performed on the basis of evaluator expertise and knowledge. One characteristic of heuristic evaluation is to guide evaluators by providing them a small set of predefined heuristics rathe...