Front cover......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
SERIES FOREWORD......Page 18
PREFACE......Page 20
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 24
CHAPTER 1. A Guided Tour of Ergonomic Design......Page 28
CHAPTER 2. The Human System......Page 68
CHAPTER 3. Design to Fit Tasks, Processes, and People......Page 120
CHAPTER 4. Assessment and Design of the Physical Environment......Page 156
CHAPTER 5. Design of Work Areas, Tools, and Equipment......Page 210
CHAPTER 6. Methods Improvement & Motion Analysis of Physical Tasks......Page 274
CHAPTER 7. Measurement of Human Performance......Page 316
CHAPTER 8. Predicting Human Performance......Page 344
CHAPTER 9. Measurement of Learning and Forgetting......Page 388
CHAPTER 10. Sampling Methods in Industrial Ergonomics......Page 406
CHAPTER 11. Questionnaires and Interviews......Page 440
CHAPTER 12. Simulation in Ergonomic Design......Page 466
CHAPTER 13. Design for Crew-Team Operations......Page 496
CHAPTER 14. Ergonomics in Maintenance and Repair......Page 520
CHAPTER 15. Ergonomics of Product Quality and Usability......Page 556
CHAPTER 16. Inspection and Quality Control......Page 596
CHAPTER 17. Macroergonomics of Occupational Safety and Health......Page 630
CHAPTER 18. Communication and Display Design......Page 658
CHAPTER 19. Ergonomics of Control......Page 712
CHAPTER 20. Decision Making and Decision Support......Page 760
CHAPTER 21. Personnel Selection, Placement, and Training......Page 816
CHAPTER 22. Job Evaluation and Compensation......Page 840
APPENDIX A: SELLING ERGONOMICS TO MANAGEMENT......Page 908
APPENDIX B: Economic Analysis of Projects in Ergonomic Design and Management......Page 912
APPENDIX C: Some Probability Distributions......Page 924
APPENDIX D: TABLES OF STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS......Page 928
APPENDIX E: Some Fundamentals of Statistical Regression and Correlation......Page 938
APPENDIX F: Fundamentals of Analysis of Variance......Page 948
Autor Index......Page 958
Subject Index......Page 971
Back cover......Page 996