The newspaper industry is one of many in which employees are reported to be at risk for work-related musculoskeletal disorders of the upper extremities and low back. The purpose of this 18-month demonstration project was to assess the usefulness of a participatory ergonomics process as a strategy to reduce the risk factors associated with musculoskeletal disorders at a metropolitan newspaper co...

Ergonomics is defined by the International Ergonomics Association ergonomics as the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance. Ergonomics is employed to fulfill the two goals ...

Diversity and inclusivity are important, with demonstrated impact on numerous outcomes, including breadth, creativity, innovation of work as well satisfaction commitment to organizations. The Human Factors Ergonomics Society (HFES) Inclusion Committee is charged increasing diversity inclusiveness within the society and, by extension, (HF/E) profession. We conducted a thematic analysis an altern...

Introduction: Macro-ergonomics is an important factor that affects behavior, favorable performance and personnel’s efficiency that can cause conformity of employees by increasing labor and efficiency and in result decreasing employees’ stress amount. The aim of the present study was to investigate relationship between Macro-ergonomics and occupational stress in employees working in one casting ...

Advanced software technologies that can be integrated with physical laboratories now allow students and researchers to access laboratory equipment and instruments remotely through the Internet. While this capability has been used in engineering and science education successfully for some time, application of this approach to human factors engineering and ergonomics education is new. The develop...

This paper aims at asserting the impact of formal specifications on the ergonomics of software user interfaces. It is shown that the use of an object-oriented design methodology featuring a formal specification and integrating human factors in the design process, is the best way to ensure quality both in the software and ergonomics domain. The method we propose is based both on Petri nets and o...