Ergonomics - what does it mean?

The term ergonomics is the interaction between individuals, machines, or devices that may affect their performance and productivity in an environment.

The ergonomic goal is to evaluate the interactions or relationships between each component to determine the best performance. Therefore, ergonomics examines the relationship between the three elements: individuals, devices, the environment, and how to improve them.

So what might you ask?
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  Ergonomics is often the focus of "work." Employment performance is related to the operation of machines/equipment in the employment environment. However, given the current economic environment, the employment environment is increasingly turning to self-employment activities. These activities are large and located at home, with less regulation of manual handling and sports education.

New areas of home office performance require closer monitoring through ergonomic awareness and education. This is because many self-employed people do not see the dangers inherent in the repeated operation of most home office equipment and systems.

The most important equipment is the office chair. A periodic pattern of chronic musculoskeletal injuries is produced by a combination of incorrect pelvic control [usually caused by lack of physical exercise] and poor posture balance.

The environment can be improved by helping individuals operate devices such as computer word processing:

1. Evaluate an individual's environmental safety to accomplish the tasks that need to be completed. This will include assessing the individual's seat and posture, if you are going to sit for a long time while completing the task.
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  2. Evaluate the overall user interface of the environment to make the relationship between individuals and tasks more compatible.
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  3. Modify individual tasks to create more efficient ways to fit user characteristics.
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  4. Change the way activities are performed to adapt to the physical, psychological and social needs of the individual in the environment.

You can then help everyone improve performance by assessing the comfort of the console, reducing fatigue, preventing repetitive injuries and creating a harmonious work environment.

The human body part of any environmental system should be integrated into the design phase in order to operate the entire system efficiently. If you consider this at a later stage, you can limit the performance process by lack of ergonomic evaluation of the entire system.

What can an ergonomic assessment provide for your business?

1. Highlight the risk areas of the human environmental system and recommendations for increasing productivity.
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  2. Evaluate the comfort of key operators to develop a more energy efficient process for the operating system.
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  3. Individual assessment of input and output information flow to achieve a more energy efficient strategy.

How can ergonomics improve your business?
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  1. It improves the comfort of key operators to improve performance and reduce the rate of absenteeism caused by repetitive strain injuries.
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  2. Improvements in workstation layout can reduce job requirements, risk factors, repetitive and awkward static postures as they relate to musculoskeletal injuries.
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  3. Changes in the geographic location of individuals and equipment may improve harmony and increase the energy efficiency of the work environment.

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