Background: Ergonomic interventions and ergonomic redesign are researched upon today in the realms of 'Prevention through Design' towards addressing the occupational health and safety concerns of the industry. Objective: To review the developments over the past ten years relating to computer aided ergonomic design, and propose an ergonomic intervention framework for manufacturing systems. Metho...

Ergonomics interventions have the potential to improve operational performance and employee well-being. We introduce a framework for ergonomics climate, the extent to which an organization emphasizes and supports the design and modification of work to maximize both performance and well-being outcomes. We assessed ergonomics climate at a large manufacturing facility twice during a two-year perio...

Reflections on ergonomics in the context of sustainability organizations are an important strategy for improvement safe working environments. In literature, discussion that encompasses relationship between and business is a topic little explored. The objective present research to map explore scientific production field period from 2010 2020, order show temporal evolution existing articulation t...

This issue is concerned with the provision of occupational health services and the people who provide it; in other words, the effectiveness of occupational health workers and the effects of that work on their health. Continuing the theme, this issue also publishes a number of original papers which examine the effects of health care work on health care workers. Whilst there are undoubtedly chang...

The 1960s represents a key decade in the expansion of ergonomics within the UK. This paper reviews trends and developments that emerged out of the 1960s and compares these with ergonomics research and practice today. The focus in particular is on the expansion of ergonomics as a discipline within industry, as well as more specific topics, such as the emergence of areas of interest, for example,...

This paper presents a reflection on the future of ergonomics and a clear position for the use of prospective in this discipline. We propose to structure ergonomic activities around corrective, preventive (design) and prospective ergonomics, where the latter looks forward in time to defining human needs and activities so as to create human-centered artifacts that are useful and provide a positiv...

background: the employees of welfare centers, due to the special conditions of their work, may be exposed to excessive occupational stress and workload . thus, the aim of this study was to determine the effect of workload and occupational stress on the general health of female employees of public welfare centers.   materials and methods: this was a correlational research on 63 female employees ...

Ergonomics literature has often identified concerns about the difficulty of gaining support for ergonomics interventions. There appears to be a shift from the view that ergonomics issues can be made to be simple, towards a wider appreciation of the complexity of ergonomics problems in the real world. A framework from knowledge management--the Cynefin Framework--is recommended as providing a way...