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 ...

BACKGROUND Occupational hazards are much higher for nurses than many other jobs and neglecting this fact may reduce the quality of nursing services. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between knowledge of ergonomics and occupational health among the nursing staff affiliated to Golestan University of Medical Sciences. METHODS It was a cross-sectional analytical study on ...

The 48th Annual Conference of Nordic Ergonomics and Human Factors Society (NES) is organized by the Finnish Ergonomics Society (FES) together with University of Eastern Finland, Institute of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, and with co-organizers Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and Savonia, University of Applied Sciences. NES2016 conference gathers together researchers and practit...

"Handbook of human factors and ergonomics." International Journal Occupational Safety Ergonomics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), p. 1

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 ...

Participatory ergonomics is an intervention strategy acting on physical load exposures occurring in occupational settings, scarcely known in Spain but with a number of experiences and evidences coming from other countries. There are several reasons justifying the interest of this approach. First, participatory ergonomics focuses on one of the categories of occupational exposures with the larges...

Work Rehabilitation and Ergonomics, proactive and reactive, are practices that touch the lives of most employees and employers. Effective, evidence-based services are essential to successful outcomes. With the average age of most workforces now in the mid 40’s, the complications of personal medical conditions affect worker production quality, quantity and job satisfaction. The aging of the “bab...

background : occupational hazards of nursing jobs are much higher than other jobs and neglecting this fact may reduce the quality of nursing services. the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between knowledge of ergonomic science and the occupational injuries among the nursing staff affiliated to golestan university of medical sciences. methods : it was a cross-sectional analy...

Managers usually associate ergonomics with occupational health and safety and related legislation, not with business performance. In many companies, these decision makers seem not to be positively motivated to apply ergonomics for reasons of improving health and safety. In order to strengthen the position of ergonomics and ergonomists in the business and management world, we discuss company str...

This article presents the results of a survey carried out on leading periodicals in the areas of Ergonomics, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, the aim of which was to identify scientific publications on the inclusion at work of people with disabilities. The survey of articles published on this topic in the following journals was conducted in December 2010: Applied Ergonomics, Ergonomics, ...