Macroergonomics in Industrially Developing Countries - Case Study Iran

Creating Ergonomics Awareness in Industrially Developing Countries

“…The results indicate that the workshops did establish a general awareness of ergonomics. Only in few cases where greater involvement and commitment of top managers were present, the workshop's participants have succeeded in implementing ergonomics interventions (Helali and Shahnavaz, 1996). In other cases, very few have managed to make any practical use of the learned material.…”

Participatory Ergonomics Intervention in an Industrially Developing Country—A Case Study

“…Ergonomists' work in industrially developing countries has one thing in common: with appropriate types of ergonomics interventions, there will be improvement in quality, productivity, working conditions, occupational health and safety; there will be a reduction in rejects and rejection costs; and profit will increase [18]. Local solutions have been shown to be effective and acceptable by both management and employees [20,21,22,23]. Participation of people involved in programmes for identifying problems and developing feasible solutions has been shown to be effective [24,25,26,27,28,29].…”