Office ergonomics and human factors: practical applications

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Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 339
Edition: Second edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Just like the previous edition, this new edition aims to provide practical advice on how to create, develop, or improve office environments so that those individuals who work within them can do so comfortably and contently. Those environments include traditional purpose-built offices, home offices, vehicle interiors, or transient environments like train stations, hotels, and airports. Technology has changed Read more...

Abstract: Just like the previous edition, this new edition aims to provide practical advice on how to create, develop, or improve office environments so that those individuals who work within them can do so comfortably and contently. Those environments include traditional purpose-built offices, home offices, vehicle interiors, or transient environments like train stations, hotels, and airports. Technology has changed radically since the first edition published in 2007. The new edition has been completely updated and offers simple, practical and effective advice that can be employed easily in any office environment, whether typical or atypical

✦ Subjects

Human engineering;Office procedures;Office equipment and supplies;Design;Employee health promotion;Industrial safety

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