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Automotive automation: Investigating the impact on drivers' mental workload [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
Recent advances in technology have meant that an increasing number of vehicle driving tasks are becoming automated. Such automation poses new problems for the ergonomist.
Stanton, N A, Young, M S
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The impact of tool selection on back and wrist injury risk in tying steel reinforcement bars: a single case experiment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The paper explores the risk of work-related musculoskeletal injury in tying steel reinforcement bars. Three tools are compared to determine the extent to which ergonomic tools can reduce the risk of injury to the back and wrist in steel-tying.
Fitzgerald, Chris   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Departing from standard practices: Strategic application of value engineering in the anatomy laboratory to enhance formaldehyde extraction using high‐impact, low‐cost, and low‐maintenance solutions

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 3, Page 241-253, March 2025.
Abstract This study describes the process of developing a high‐impact, low‐cost, and low‐maintenance air ventilation system for anatomy facilities. It employed the strategic application of Value Engineering (VE), assuring that the air ventilation system meets contemporary threshold limit values (TLVs) for formaldehyde in the working zone of dissection ...
Jürgen Russ, Niels Hammer
wiley   +1 more source

Computer Ergonomics and Yoga at Work Program on Computer Related Health Problems

open access: yesJournal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), 2014
Objective: To examine the effects of Computer Ergonomics and Yoga at Work Program on computer related health problems of computer users. Material and Methods: A prospective quasi-experimental research with a single serial cohort was conducted on 64 staff
Urai Hatthakit   +2 more
doaj  

The RepVig framework for designing use-case specific representative vignettes and evaluating triage accuracy of laypeople and symptom assessment applications

open access: yesScientific Reports
Most studies evaluating symptom-assessment applications (SAAs) rely on a common set of case vignettes that are authored by clinicians and devoid of context, which may be representative of clinical settings but not of situations where patients use SAAs ...
Marvin Kopka   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ergonomics Contributions to Company Strategies [PDF]

open access: yes
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 ...
Dul, J., Neumann, W.P.
core   +1 more source

Ergonomics in the Workplace: Is It Time for an OSHA Standard? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Improper ergonomic design of jobs is one of the leading causes of work-related illness, accounting for perhaps a third of employers’ costs under state workers’ compensation laws.
Rappaport, Edward
core   +5 more sources

Organizational Sensemaking Theory Perspective of Developing AI‐Driven Strategies for Sustainability Initiatives

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being touted to assist organizations, AI integration for sustainability efforts has been limited AND sporadic and tends to follow an ad hoc strategy. The existing literature therein focuses on the technological capabilities of AI, overlooking how organizations make sense of and ...
Amanda Balasooriya, Darshana Sedera
wiley   +1 more source

Combining economic and social goals in the design of production systems by using ergonomics standards [PDF]

open access: yes
In designing of production systems, economic and social goals can be combined, if ergonomics is integrated into the design process. More than 50 years of ergonomics research and practice have resulted in a large number of ergonomics standards for ...
Dul, J.   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Effect of Ergonomical Factors on the Employees [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
To improve and enlightening production ergonomics is a search widespread to numerous organizations in diverse engineering and management zones. At the foundation is an ambition to eradicate hazards for job concerned musculoskeletal disorders, but recent ...
Kashif, A. R. (Abdur), Sohail, M. U. (M)
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