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Efficacy of an ergonomics intervention for remote college students
Work, 2022BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic caused a rapid adaptation of online education, requiring university students to complete their schoolwork remotely. There is a gap in the evidence-based literature regarding these novel home workstations and the potential to help students understand ergonomics and adjust their workstations.
Delaney, Moslander, Karen, Jacobs
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Ergonomic Intervention and Sustainable Innovation
AHFE International, 2022Among the reasons interfering with the product development are the human being necessities concerning with activities that one has to do to make possible the action in his/her environment. In order to satisfy such necessities, the practice of Design allow us to find project solutions that yield the balance among several factors inherent to the process ...
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Disability, injury and ergonomics intervention
Disability and Rehabilitation, 2001Disability due to work injury, trauma or disease is prevalent in our society. Also, due to slower growth of population and rapid increase in ageing population there may be an increasing pressure on shrinking labour pool. The purpose of this study is to review disability profile with common disabilities, socioeconomic impact of these disabilities, make ...
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Constructive ergonomics and enabling interventions
ErgonomicsThis paper presents a constructive view of Human Factors/Ergonomics (HFE) and its implications regarding work, organisations and HFE interventions.In contrast to a defensive approach to HFE, which would view work mostly as a source of constraints, and the role of HFE as reducing these constraints, the goal of constructive ergonomics is to eliminate ...
Falzon, Pierre +2 more
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Ingredients of ergonomic intervention: how to get ergonomics applied
Ergonomics, 1990An overview is given of how ergonomic expertise is developed and implemented in organizational practice in the steel industry in The Netherlands.
J. A. Algera +4 more
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Ergonomic Interventions Concepts and Research
Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2000The development of cooperative ergonomic intervention research between labor and the scientific community is necessary to develop an objective data base to resolve workplace safety and health problems or deficiencies as well as adequately determine which measures reduce/prevent worker health problems related to improper workplace ergonomics.
David LeGrande +2 more
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Ergonomics Intervention of Workplaces Using SEANES Ergonomic Checkpoints
2018Ergonomics improvements in the workplace are gaining impetus in industry. As a means of fitting the workplace to workers, ergonomics improvements are increasingly applied with the aim of improving safety, health and productivity at work. A broad range of ergonomics measures can be applied through the initiative of workers.
Halimahtun Khalid +2 more
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A Business Case for Patient Care Ergonomic Interventions
Nursing Administration Quarterly, 2005This article provides a framework for a business case for patient ergonomic programs that accentuates the financial gains to be realized from such programs as compared to meeting safety requirements. An introduction is made to such commonly used measures as payback period, net present value analysis and internal rate of return.
Kris, Siddharthan +2 more
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Evaluation of an ergonomics intervention programme in VDT workplaces
Applied Ergonomics, 1995This paper focuses on an intervention programme based on the concept of participatory ergonomics. The study was designed within the framework of a multidisciplinary project concerned with identifying the work conditions and problems necessary to improve the working life of VDT operators with routine data-entry and data-dialogue tasks.
G, Westlander +3 more
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Ergonomics intervention in an Iranian television manufacturing industry
WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, 2011Objective: The primary goal of this study was to use the Strain Index (SI) to assess the risk of developing upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders in a television (TV) manufacturing industry and evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention. Methods: The project was designed and implemented in two stages.
M, Motamedzade +3 more
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