Description
This course focuses on the application of knowledge about human capabilities and limitations to the design of workplaces, work methods and jobs for optimal safety, efficiency, productivity and comfort. Topics include: systems design and task analysis, muscle use and anthropometry, workspace design, activity-related soft tissue disorders, back injuries, shift work, organizational and psychosocial aspects of work, skilled work and mental activity and regulations in ergonomics. Objectives include how to increase awareness of the need for and role of ergonomics in occupational health, to obtain basic knowledge in the application of ergonomic principles to design of industrial workplaces and the prevention of occupational injuries to understand the breadth and scope of occupational ergonomics.
Lab and Tutorials:
The course requires practice and problem-solving training during tutorials.
Literature:
• Introduction to human factors engineering. NY: Longman, Wickens, C. D., Lee, J. D. Liu, Y. & Becker, S. E. G.,
