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2. Ergonomics - Wikipedia

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   Proper ergonomic design is necessary to prevent repetitive strain injuries and other musculoskeletal disorders, which can develop over time and can lead to long-term disability. Human factors and ergonomics are concerned with the "fit" between the user, equipment, and environment or "fitting a job to a person" [6] or "fitting the task to the ...

3. Data entry clerk - Wikipedia

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   Proper ergonomics at the workstation is a common topic considered. [6] [7] [8] The data entry clerk may also use a mouse, [9] [10] and a manually-fed scanner may be involved. [11] Speed and accuracy, not necessarily in that order, are the key measures of the job. [12]

4. Cognitive ergonomics - Wikipedia

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   Cognitive ergonomics is a scientific discipline that studies, evaluates, and designs tasks, jobs, products, environments and systems and how they interact with humans and their cognitive abilities.

5. Participatory ergonomics - Wikipedia

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   Participatory ergonomics programs seek to maximize the involvement of the workers in this process based on the simple fact that a worker is an expert on his or her job. The participatory approach to ergonomics relies on actively involving workers in implementing ergonomic knowledge, procedures and changes with the intention of improving working ...

6. Ergonomics for manual material handling - Wikipedia

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   Rotate workers through jobs that use different muscles, body parts, or postures. Administrative improvements, such as job rotation, can help reduce workers’ exposures to risk factors by limiting the amount of time workers spend on “problem jobs.” However, these measures may still expose workers to risk factors that can lead to injuries.

7. Engineering psychology - Wikipedia

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   Cognitive ergonomics and cognitive engineering - studies cognition in work settings, in order to optimize human well-being and system performance. It is a subset of the larger field of human factors and ergonomics. Applied psychology - The use of psychological principles to overcome problems in other domains. It has been argued that engineering ...