The organisation of industrial ergonomics — A human: machine model

✍ Scribed by T.B. Leamon

• Book ID: 102633171
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-6870
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-6870(80)90232-x

✦ Synopsis

The multidisciplinary nature of ergonomics requires the organisation of component disciplines into a recognisable technology for industrial practice, the development of methodologies for use by ergonomists and the specification of criteria for training courses. A simple model is presented and illustrated which has been developed and used in industrial practice and in training for industrial practice.

The multi-disciplinary nature of ergonomics, whilst providing a major advantage in the area of industrial work design, creates major problems in industrial practice. These arise in training for practice, in the development of analytical methodologies and in the actual capitalisation on the nature of the subject.