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2. 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 ...

3. 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.

4. Ergonomic hazard - Wikipedia

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   Commonly, ergonomic issues can arise in an office setting. [12] [13] Many people who work in an office (either a home office or a formal office building) often spend hours sitting and working in the same position. Ergonomic considerations include chair and computer monitor height adjustment, lighting position, break frequency, and chair design ...

5. Cognitive ergonomics - Wikipedia

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   Cognitive ergonomics as defined by the International Ergonomics Association "is concerned with mental processes, such as perception, memory, reasoning, and motor response, as they affect interactions among humans and other elements of a system". It studies the cognition in work to help with the human well-being in system performances.

6. Ergonomics - Wikipedia

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   The term ergonomics (from the Greek ἔργον, meaning "work", and νόμος, meaning "natural law") first entered the modern lexicon when Polish scientist Wojciech Jastrzębowski used the word in his 1857 article Rys ergonomji czyli nauki o pracy, opartej na prawdach poczerpniętych z Nauki Przyrody (The Outline of Ergonomics; i.e. Science of Work, Based on the Truths Taken from the ...

7. Hywel Murrell - Wikipedia

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   Hywel Murrell (1908 – 21 January 1984) was a British psychologist who introduced the term "ergonomics" to the English dictionary, created the first ergonomics department in British industry, and wrote the first British textbook on ergonomics. [1]