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Ergonomics
Published in W. David Yates, Safety Professional’s Reference and Study Guide, 2020
Any safety professional will undoubtedly encounter low back pain and work-related strains throughout their careers. Despite the best efforts at controlling these injuries, they still account for a significant proportion of employee injuries and economic cost to the employer. A significant amount of energy is or will be spent in attempting to develop and implement programs to prevent these types of injuries. Ergonomics plays an important role in the prevention of strains, injuries, and repetitive motion disorders. The International Ergonomics Association defines ergonomics as follows: Ergonomics (or human factors) is 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.
Intraoperative performance, non-technical skills and surgical safety
Published in Rhona Flin, George G. Youngson, Steven Yule, Enhancing Surgical Performance, 2015
Other factors such as patients’ and surgeons’ position and posture affect the task. Ergonomics is a science concerned with the ‘fit’ between people and their work. It puts people first, taking account of their capabilities and limitations. Ergonomics aims to make sure that tasks, equipment, information and environment fit each worker. The ergonomics involved in the OR can have a distinct effect on the performance of the surgeon and predispose to fatigue at best or repetitive strain injury at worst, so posture and factors such as body position are important elements of surgery. This aspect of surgical performance is often not addressed in a conscious fashion, and the impacts of poor posture and subsequent muscle fatigue with the potential for degradation of surgical performance need to be actively considered. This should constitute a part of the surgical team’s shared situation awareness. An awareness of the effect of ergonomics on surgical performance and the requirements of an optimal operating position and other physical features of operative surgery (e.g. lighting and visual aids) should therefore be a conscious decision for the surgeon if fatigue is to be avoided in the short term and somatic complaints (e.g. neck and back pain) are to be avoided in the longer term.
Ergonomics
Published in W. David Yates, Safety Professional’s, 2015
As a safety professional, you have or will, undoubtedly, encounter low back pain and work-related strains. Despite your best efforts at controlling these injuries, they will still account for a significant proportion of employee injuries and economic cost to the employer. A significant amount of your energy is or will be spent in attempting to develop and implement programs to prevent these types of injuries. Ergonomics plays an important role in the prevention of strains, injuries, and repetitive motion disorders. The International Ergonomics Association defines ergonomics as follows: Ergonomics (or human factors) is 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.
Knowledge mapping analysis of safety ergonomics: a bibliometric study
Published in Ergonomics, 2023
Wenjing Ji, Hui Liu, Kai Pan, Rui Huang, Chang Xu, Ze Wei, Jianhai Wang
Industrial Productivity Domain Research (Green Cluster): The Green Cluster contains 32 nodes and focuses on research on safety ergonomics importance and the impact on productivity in the industry. Ayoub examined the ergonomic deficiencies section and found that ignoring ergonomics brings inefficiency and worker suffering, emphasising the safety ergonomics at work (Ayoub 1990). At the same time, the industry is paying more and more attention to ergonomics, which not only helps workers provide a healthy, safe, and comfortable work environment, but also can be used to improve productivity. Burri and Helander (1991) used analytical methods such as ergonomic checklists in an actual manufacturing environment to assess productivity on-site and finally concluded that ergonomics contributed to productivity. Resnick and Zanotti (1997) proposed that workplace design using ergonomic guidelines can improve productivity by analysing the effect of three work parameters on productivity: tool mass, movement height, and movement distance under safety ergonomics conditions.
Determining Ergonomic Risks Arising from the Use of Information Technologies in the Covid-19 Environment
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023
Güler Aksüt, Hacı Mehmet Alakaş, Tamer Eren
Psychosocial factors are listed as job stress, repetitive work, job satisfaction, and communication. The house is known to provide a normally stress-free situation. However, when the person has to work from home and has to complete the job within a prescribed timeframe, it will create excessive physical and mental stress (Gangopadhyay, 2020). The use of information technology increases the probability of experiencing time-related work stress in home production (Chalmers, 2008). Stress increases the occurrence of MSDs and changes their properties, increases pain, and makes operators more susceptible to other risk factors. Ergonomics aims to reduce stress and eliminate injuries and disorders associated with repetitive tasks associated with overuse of muscles, poor posture, and computer use. Awareness of safe working postures also helps to greatly reduce the morbidity of MSDs (Madhwani & Nag, 2017).
Application of interpretive structural modelling (ISM) for developing ergonomic workstation improvement framework
Published in Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 2023
Mangesh Joshi, Vishwas Deshpande
Ergonomics is the branch of science that deals with fitting a right person to a right job with appropriate suitable workstation in a controlled environment to get maximum human work efficiency. Work system design is a challenging job as a designer must ensure a proper fit between a man, his workstation and working environment. Moreover, a designed workstation may not be suitable to everyone due to difference in anthropometry, physical/mental capabilities of individuals, task requirements (Haqi and Alayyannur 2021) etc. To achieve a golden mean of everything, the design and developing the ergonomic workstations is becoming the major attractions among the researchers and ergonomic practitioners. In developing countries like India, the business organizations are now becoming more concerned about maintaining workers’ wellbeing thereby reducing labour absenteeism for their competiveness. Ergonomic improvement efforts are no longer just an option, but a core necessity for companies around the world if they have to succeed in competition. Ergonomics plays a vital role in improving health and productivity in the workplace, and over the past two decades it has become important to redesign the workplace (Kushwaha and Kane 2016). Efficiently designed workstations are essential to provide both flexibility and mass production effectively. It should adapt to changing product specifications as well as varying anthropometric dimensions of the workforce. The user and the task-oriented design of the workstation allow organizations to increase their production and quality levels in lesser time, space, and cost.