Weighting in life cycle assessment (LCA) is a controversial subject due to its dependence upon value judgements. One of the issues that has to be dealt with is whose values that shall be reflected. In a democratic society, a fair candidate to put forward would be the government. In environmental economics taxes and fees set up by governments to protect natural resources and the environment are ...

Human Factors/Ergonomics (HF/E) is a systems discipline focused on jointly optimizing human well-being and overall system performance. Societal problems, including but not limited to health inequity, racism, poverty, (lack of) sustainability, are inherently problems that involve humans, so recent work has argued HF IE can should contribute addressing these issues. This panel will bring together...

Simulation can support the design of an ergonomic workplace by enabling early assessment of ergonomic conditions in a virtual environment. An important feature is the possibility to study alternative solutions or the effect of improvements from an ergonomics perspective. To be able to conduct an efficient and reliable evaluation in a virtual environment, an objective analysis method is essentia...

This paper describes occupational biomechanics as an evolving body of knowledge that has required not only a sophisticated development of fundamental biomechanical principles and human failure data, but also has required epidemiological information to enable a more complete understanding of how certain types of musculoskeletal injuries can be caused by specific physical work requirements. It al...

Zoonoses (diseases that enter the human population via animal contact) are a major global health concern. Because of how zoonoses emerge, understanding human reasoning about the risk factors associated with animal contact is central to combating their spread. However, little is known about the factors that influence perception of these risks. We present an inductive account of zoonosis risk per...

Numerous scholars and practitioners claim that motivational factors can facilitate successful knowledge sharing. However, little empirical research has been conducted examining the different kinds of motivation (extrinsic and intrinsic) used to explain employee knowledge sharing behaviors. By integrating a motivational perspective into the theory of reasoned action (TRA), this study examines th...

When a traffic management system involves many thousands of vehicles using hundreds of streets and highways, it can be difficult or impossible to tell whether the network is flowing smoothly and to predict how modifications to dynamic control parameters will affect the system. For large-scale traffic management problems it is both necessary and difficult to assess the current state of the syste...

The article aims to show the work of nursing technicians in psychiatric patient care in a crisis care unit, revealing the difficulties found and the strategies built to meet the operational needs for the development of actions of assistance, competence and the construction of workers' health. The methodological approach used was based on the Ergonomic Work ́ Analysis EWA and Ergology whose sampl...