Management of the Benefits on the Client’s Involvement on Ergonomic Analysis

Loureiro, Isabel F.; Leão, Celina Pinto; Arezes, Pedro

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15717-2_1

Cited by 5 publications

(4 citation statements)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The variables analyzed with this model are called Ergonomic Factors (EFs) and allow the ETdA operability. They can be divided into two major groups: intrinsic (individual: work postures, general physical activity, communication/interrelation and attentiveness) and extrinsic (environmental: noise, lighting, thermal environment and risk accident or occupational: professional training quality, job content, decision making, restrictiveness) [10]. The set of 14 EFs is flexible, and it can be chosen according to the area under analysis.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Analyst/Professionals (AP), Analyst/Clients (AC), Clients/Professionals (CP) and Management/Clients/Analyst (MCA)) [10]. In these large common areas, since different ergonomic contexts can be identified, analyst and professionals dimensions analysis was done by section and according to the qualified activity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is authors' believe that it is easier to propose changes when the client has similar opinion to the analyst and/or the professional. ETdA model follows the emerging challenges in the ergonomics domains by increasing the population awareness regarding ergonomics, allowing the participation of the entire organization in critical situations' identification and proposals of intervention [2,10].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Ergonomic tridimensional analysis: critical ergonomic factors identification in a commercial environmental

Loureiro

Leão

Arezes

2012

Work

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Ergonomic tridimensional Analysis (ETdA) was developed to be used as an auxiliary tool on the ergonomic intervention. It was specially designed for commercial areas with free circulation of people. Due to that, the client, the third ETdA dimension, becomes an important element and their opinions relevant in the ergonomic analysis. The remains two ETdA dimensions, professionals and analyst, play an identical role as in the traditional occupational ergonomic analysis. For each of these dimensions, specific observation tools were assembled: an ETdA questionnaire, an evaluation form and a checklist for direct and indirect observations. The variables that allow the ETdA operability are identified as Ergonomic Factors (EFs). A case study is presented identifying, for each dimension, the critical EFs. This will allow the design of the weighting table, where the influence of each dimensions results is measured, stressing the important role of clients on ergonomic issues.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Ergonomic tridimensional analysis: critical ergonomic factors identification in a commercial environmental

Loureiro

Leão

Arezes

2012

Work

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Usually, the different levels of the socio-technical system are studied separately by decomposition of the system into their functional systems. Considering this point of view, managements strategies often are dissociated from the productive process, in terms of human factors, take for example the situations where companies give too much importance to political changing's and as a consequence, they implement several structural changes in the organizations like less payment or mass redundancies (Loureiro et al, 2010). This paper briefly explores a new line of discussion about the inclusion of an occupational layer on the global cities concept.…”

Section: Figure 1: Sustainability Pillars (Frommentioning

confidence: 99%

Global city: the occupational layer

2015

EJSD

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Nowadays discussion on global cities concept is being addressed on European level. The concept is a consequence of multiplicities of globalization processes adding different layers according to social, economic and environmental requirements. Cities must also be seen as working systems, with the same needs and requirements in terms of safety and well-being that are considered for other systems. In this paper Authors address the evidences that support the importance of this additional layer. Different sources were used in order to obtain the data related to working systems and their relation to the global cities concept. The conducted systematic review indicate that the search words: sustainability, occupational and global city were not crossed for research. Furthermore, challenges that cities are facing must be understood as additional source of motivation and innovation towards a global city. Cities must also be seen as working systems, with the same needs and requirements in terms of safety and well-being that are considered for other systems.

show abstract