AH 3574 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Human Factors And Ergonomics, Safety Culture, Employee Engagement
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Review: ergonomic risk factor categories, task, environmental, personal. Psychosocial ergonomic risk factors: variety of work performed, monotonous vs. varied, control over some work, none, some, lots, clarity of work, clear vs. unclear, amount of work, too much, just right, too little, social support, present vs. absent. Job satisfaction: high vs. low, safety culture, excellent vs. poor, employee engagement, non, high, low, shift work. Monotonous work examples: piloting an airplane, car manufacturing assembly line, operating a crane, feeding parts into a production warehouse, delivering mail, cashier at a store, nuclear power plant operator. Ideally: workers are matched to both the physical and mental demands of a job, not always possible or feasible, physical demands can be reduced without a significant reduction in the perception of the strain of the job. Goals: belief that today"s younger workers are more prone to boredom.
