ergonomics risk management in a manufacturing company using electre

Assessing Exposure to Risk Factors for Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders Using ART method in a Manufacturing Company

Background & Aims of the Study: Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) is one of the most serious consequences of improper posture or work-related strain with Symptoms of pain in one or more regions of the body. Repeated long-term work-related load can be considered as the main cause of ULWMSDs. This study was aimed to do ergonomic assessment in a manufacturing company in Kashan city u...

Safety Management in a Manufacturing Company: Six Sigma Approach

The manufacturing company under consideration recorded the high accident rates for last few years. These accidents cause the organization the heavy man-day loss, the production loss and heavy costs of insurance. The objective of health and safety department at the manufacturing company was to set and improve accidents prevention system. The paper presents how does the six-sigma technique will h...

Ergonomics contributions to company strategies.

Managers usually associate ergonomics with occupational health and safety and related legislation, not with business performance. In many companies, these decision makers seem not to be positively motivated to apply ergonomics for reasons of improving health and safety. In order to strengthen the position of ergonomics and ergonomists in the business and management world, we discuss company str...

Advances in Ergonomics in Manufacturing

This case study reports on the quality assessment of a drilling cabin (i.e., a dog house) by using a Participatory Ergonomics (PE) approach to the Heuristic Evaluation (HE) compared to an operators’ self-reported measurement. In the quality assessment, self-reported rating techniques are broadly used by Human Factors (HF) practitioners with the aim of investigating the subjective components (e....

Risk Management in an Asset Management Company: a practical case

Supply Chain Management As the Company Engine in Automotive Manufacturing

The objective of this paper is to define how to create a supply chain management (SCM) organizational structure with roles and responsibilities in a multinational company with a big part of the supply chain inside of the company. SCM means having under control the complete supply chain to decide the global optimal instead of summing up the optimal of each node independently. We propose, based o...