AH 3574 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indoor Air Quality, Occupational Medicine, Big Tent
Document Summary
Maximise the fit of tasks, equipment and workplace environment to the workers. Optimize the workplace to the capabilities of workers, both physical and mental. Minimize work that places workers at risk for ergonomic injury and/or inefficiency. Element of an occupational safety and health program. Due to retirements and decline in osh professional. Ergonomics maximizes contributions of workers while maximizing safety. Solution for becoming more competitive in an increasingly competitive global economy. Removal of unnecessary costs that are often indirect and hidden. Aging workforce more at risk for soft tissue injuries. Slower growth in labor force (must do more with less) Osha does not have an ergonomics standards. General guidelines have been developed for all business. Targeted guidelines have been developed for small # of specific industries. An ergonomist must be knowledgeable in a variety of disciplines. Makes employers more efficient and therefore more competitive. Ergonomics is a process that addresses fitting the workplace to the employees.
