OBJECTIVE This study evaluated the effect of an occupational therapy ergonomics intervention on the workstation design and body positioning of microscope workers at a fiber optics facility. METHOD The study was quasi-experimental. Fifty-one microscope workers were assigned to one of three groups: control, education only, and education training. Their workstation design and body positioning we...

OBJECTIVES Production agriculture is commonly associated with high prevalence of ergonomic injuries, particularly during intensive manual labor and during harvesting. This paper intends to briefly describe an overview of oil palm plantation management highlighting the ergonomics problem each of the breakdown task analysis. METHODS Although cross-sectional field visits were conducted in the cu...

The present study seeks to reflect on ergonomics with remote work, highlighting some of the main characteristics related use in work routines. Its general objective is characterize and analyze occupational activity from worker's ergonomic point view. specific objectives are: identify describe importance procedures that must be adopted ergonomics; adverse conditions good practices at perspective...

UNLABELLED The past decade has seen an increase in the application of human factors and ergonomics (HFE) techniques to healthcare delivery in a broad range of contexts (domains, locations and environments). This paper provides a state of science commentary using four examples of HFE in healthcare to review and discuss analytical and implementation challenges and to identify future issues for HF...

Ergonomics has come a long way since the birth of the subject some 50 years ago. It now has an established research base and an appropriate portfolio of methodologies. A brief overview of the subject's development will be presented, with a particular focus on the contribution of ergonomics to our understanding of work related musculoskeletal disorders. Future challenges are also considered in t...

The International Ergonomics Association defines 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’. From a practical point of view, ergonomics is the science and ...