Ergonomics Guidelines-Eng

College & Research Libraries News, 1995

INDUSTRIAL GUIDE TO ERGONOMICS ENGINEERING, 2019

Ergonomics is the study of people while they use equipment in specific environments to perform certain tasks. Ergonomics seeks to minimize adverse effects of the environment upon people and thus to enable each person to maximize his or her contribution to a given job. This industry guide: Explains generally how measurements of human traits can be used to further workplace safety, health, comfort and productivity, discusses how to enhance worker safety by combining principles that govern the action of forces with knowledge of the human body, analyzes properties of illumination and explains how proper illumination makes for a safer workplace by reducing worker fatigue, shows how hand tools can be designed to reduce injuries to employees and to lessen trauma to their body members, illustrates ways to recognize proper sitting positions and to construct seating arrangements to minimize stress to the lumbar region, demonstrates how workspaces can be designed to decrease psychological stress and to increase employee motivation, directs attention to the benefits of proper selection and strategic arrangement of controls and displays for the machinery operation, offers general information about ways to reduce back injuries that result from manual lifting and offers more specialized guidelines for evaluating physical stresses imposed by lifting, refines the concept of the worker with a disability and suggests ways of meeting the special needs of people with disabilities, and stimulates new thinking about problems such as those from the sustained operation of computers) brought about by technological advancements. This industry guide demonstrates how benefits are derived from applying the principles of ergonomics to workplace safety and health. It gives the reader a solid

JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association, 2012

To assess knowledge and practices of ergonomics among desktop users of different professions. It was an observational cross-sectional study conducted over a two-week timeframe (from November 7 to 21 2009), through a self-reporting questionnaire. Responses were analysed using SPSS version 15 and considered significant at p value<0.05. The study population comprised 210 males and 134 females. Of the total, 52% said they had heard about ergonomics, while 92% were aware of its importance. Knowledge about the importance of arm-rest (24%) and backrest inclination at 120 degrees (32%) was there, but practised by 21% and 31% respectively (p = <0.02). Straight placement of wrist in line with elbow was known to 194 (56.39%) and practiced by 138 (40%), while 186 (54.06%) respondents had knowledge about the ideal height of the chair, but it was adjusted only by 112 (32%). Disproportion was observed between the knowledge and practices of correct viewing distance from the computer screen, m...

2015

This paper is based on a large questionnaire study. The paper presents how all participants and subgroups (upper- and lower-level white-collar workers) answered the question, "Have you had an ache, pain, or numbness, which you associate with desktop computer use, in the different body parts during the last 12 months?' 14.6% of participants (19.4% of women and 8.2% of men) reported that they had often or very often physical symptoms in the neck. Even if our results cannot prove a causal relation of symptoms with computer use, show that workers believe that computer use can influence their wellbeing: this is important when devising treatment modalities to decrease these physical symptoms.

IEEE Software, 2000

3 3 D De ep pa ar rt tm me en nt t o of f P Pr ro od du uc ct ti io on n, , Abstract Today, both workers and management are concerned about the quality of work lives, ergonomics and occupational safety and health. New development such as information and communication technologies and specialized work requiring repetitive tasks add up to a need for Ergonomics. By examining, designing, testing and evaluating the work piece and how people interact in it, ergonomics can create productive, safe, and satisfying work environment. Ergonomics is concerns with the study of the relationship between people and work environment. The scope for the application of ergonomics in our working environment is tremendous. Ergonomics has the essential role to play in increasing work efficiency and productivity by making the tool or machine fit the users and the worker's efficiency. Ergonomics developed into a recognized field during the Second World War, when for the first time, technology and the human science s were systematically applied in a coordinated manner [1]. The application of Ergonomics is very much in Europe and northern America. Recently Southeast Asian countries including Bangladesh are applying the concept of ergonomics industrial workstation design. This paper focuses on the importance of ergonomics in product design, working environment, and its influence in industrial workstation design, the interdisciplinary nature of ergonomics and the implications of ergonomics in industrial engineering function. It also contains the importance of ergonomics for an industrial engineer to design product.

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology IJRASET, 2020

Ergonomics is primarily concerned with improving the performance of man or man-machine systems. Although many applications have produced evident improvements, the terms of reference and the results are not often expressed in measures that are easily converted into financial savings. Cases are cited of increases of productivity resulting from equipment redesign and of savings achieved from the reduction of accidents, and from improvements in the working environment. It is suggested that the use of ergonomic data in a design program should not necessarily be based on the prediction of financial benefits but based on human factors.Most incidents can be prevented by taking simple ergonomic efforts. To outline important issues on safety and health that should be paid attention to, on work places and in Industrial sites for easy reference to the workers, the need for further studies is debated. If we work carefully and take appropriate safety measures, there will definitely be fewer work injury cases and our sites will become a safe and secure place to work in.

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

In many parts of the world, compliance with relevant standards is a mandatory requirement in many services, but even when it is not, we believe standards are a good idea because they: Integrating ergonomics principle to existing standards is essential if progress is to be made in our country Nigeria technological advancement, managing a business continues to set new challenges and demands especially when viewed against: • Significant competition; • High customer and community expectations; • Returns on capital employed; • Regulatory compliance; • Executive liability risk. Standards and legislation affecting health, safety, environment and quality assurance share many common elements that if effectively integrated will stimulate business improvement and risk reduction. Integration of ergonomics principles will expose areas of waste and non-value-added activity, and provide opportunities for rationalization.