201 Ergonomics Awareness overhead

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Ergonomics
Job Demands
Worker Capabilities
A Balance for Optimization
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Good Ergonomics is Good Economics

• Poor Ergonomics
• Violates ergonomics technology
• and/or
• Is not cost effective
• Good Ergonomics
• Appropriately applies sound ergonomics technology
• and
• Is cost effective

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Ergonomics
Reduced Injuries and Illness
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Good Ergonomics is Good Economics

• Poor Ergonomics
• Violates ergonomics technology
• and/or
• Is not cost effective
• Good Ergonomics
• Appropriately applies sound ergonomics technology
• and
• Is cost effective

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Participatory Ergonomics

• Participatory Ergonomics is an employee driven
  approach focused to ensure good design, comfort,
  safety and health.

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Participatory Ergonomics Includes

• Training workforce
• Employee involvement
• Enhanced information exchange

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Ergonomic interaction area
The Worker
The Environment
The Job
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Methods of participatory ergonomics

• Design decision groups
• Quality circles
• Labor-management committees
• Train-the-trainer

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Benefits of Participatory Ergonomics Programs

• Increased motivation
• Job satisfaction
• Enhanced performance and health
• Reduction in MSDs
• More rapid implementation of change in technology
  or org design

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The Ergonomics / Quality Parallel

• Ergonomics is a separate and distinct tool in a
  managers problem-solving kit, however there are
  important overlaps with Quality
• Ergonomics fits well into a total quality control
  or quality management process
• Concepts, tools, and approaches of the quality
  process can be used to solve ergonomics issues
• Ergonomics can readily be used to improve quality

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Ergonomics Quality

• Ergonomics and Quality reinforce each other
• Organizations that have a true understanding of
  quality typically are the ones that most easily
  grasp the value of ergonomics

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Definitions are Similar

• Quality
• Meeting customer expectations and requirements
• Know thy customer
• Ergonomics
• Designing tools, systems, and products to meet
  the needs of users
• Know they user

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Problems are SimilarDefects (in Products and
Humans)

• Traditional pressure in industry is for quantity
  of output leading to problems in quality
• That same production output focus has lead to
  human defects such as MSDs, mental stress, and
  human-caused errors
• Working harder and faster, rather than
  smarter leads to quality and human defects

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Work Processes

• Quality
• Often the focus is on the processes, not the end
  result (You cant inspect quality into a
  product!)
• Ergonomics
• Typically ergonomics focuses on processes

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Management Changes

• Changes in management systems used to promote
  product quality can at the same time reduce the
  stresses that contribute to CTDs and human errors
• The common goal with Quality and Ergonomics
  Reduce Defects
• Therefore, look at Parallel Implementation of
  Quality and Ergonomics Programs for optimal
  success and impact

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Continuous Improvement

• Quality
• There are no permanent solutions
• Improvements can (and should) always be sought
• The cycle never ends
• Ergonomics
• Nothing is ever truly ergonomically correct
• There is always the potential for improvement

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The benefits of an ergonomic program

• Decreased injuries,illnesses, and workers
  compensation costs.
• Increased efficiency at work.
• Increased physical well being.
• Decreased absenteeism and turnover.
• Increase in employee morale.

Increase Company Profitability
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