The aim of this paper is to examine the ergonomic hazards associated with small scale mining in Southern Africa. A number of ergonomic health hazards affect the workers involved in the small scale mining. Many people in Southern Africa are working in the informal mining sector without any guarantee of occupational health and safety. Actual work places in deep level mines present unique challeng...

In the current demanding global marketplace, ensuring that human fit, form and function are comprehensively addressed, is becoming an increasingly important aspect of design and, in particular, obliges the most important automotive industries to develop more flexible assembly lines and better methods for PLM solution. In the meantime, designers attempt to elaborate product development methodolo...

This special issue of the International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics (JOSE) reports the results from an extensive multinational and multidisciplinary collaborative investigation of the impacts on visual display terminal (VDT) work of musculoskeletal, visual, ergonomic, and psychosocial factors. For brevity, this effort has been referred to as the MEPS project (musculoskeletal--...

background: work-related musculoskeletal disorders are the most important factors of absent from work, increased costs and human damages experienced by workers. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of work-related musculoskeletal disorders of nurses in al-zahra hospital and the effect of eight-week selected corrective exercises and ergonomic interventions on them. methods: nord...

Introduction: A childs world centers around the home, school and the local community. These should be healthy places. But in reality, these places are often so unhealthy that they underlie majority of accident and disease among children in the developing world. The aim of this study was to determine ergonomic, safety and environmental health status at primary schools in Markazi province. Materi...

vibration from the operation of industrial implements can be harmful to the human body. these implements, such as the power tiller or hand tractor often used to till rice in northern iran, can vibrate the entire body or one part, particularly the hands. in this research, the transmissibility and effects of vibration from a mitsubishi power tiller of 7.7 hp and 2400 rpm on the operator’s health ...