Fundamentals and Assessment Tools for Occupational Ergonomics merges the frontiers of ergonomics, workplace design, and management issues.

Features:

• Provides state-of-the-art theory and up-to-date practical knowledge required for effective management of ergonomics safety issues in the workplace
• Covers how to optimize the design of systems, products and processes, manage the workers' health and safety, and improve the overall quality and productivity of contemporary businesses
• Introduces the systems approach and human centered design, quality management, risk theory in human-machine systems, and legal issues
• Explores cost justification for implementing ergonomics interventions
• Includes discussions of cognitive factors, design of information devices and controls, multimodal information processing, and tolerances and variation in human performance
• Provides methods for evaluating working postures such as REBAM, RULA, LUBA, PLIBEL, HAL, and SHARP methods, NIOSH Lifting Equation, Industrial Lumbar Motion Monitor, and more
• Discusses psychophysical assessment techniques, cognitive task analysis, application of subjective scales of effort and workload, and rest allowances

Contents

Fundamentals of Ergonomics

• A Guide to Certification in Professional Ergonomics
• Magnitude of Occupationally-Related Physical and Cognitive Problems
• Legal Issues in Occupational Ergonomics
• Cost Justification for Implementing Ergonomics Intervention
• Humans in Work System Environment
• Human Factors and TQM
• User-Centered Design of Information Technology
• Application of Risk Theory in Man-Machine-Environment Systems
• Engineering Anthropometry
• Human Strength Evaluation
• Biomechanical Basis for Ergonomics
• Fundamentals of Manual Control
• Cumulative Spine Loading
• Low-Level Static Exertions
• Soft-Tissue Pathomechanics
• Mechanisms for Pain and Injury in Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Ergonomics and Aging
• Vision and Work
• Individual Factors and Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Rehabilitating Low Back Disorders
• Human Adaptation in the Workplace
• Rehabilitation Ergonomics
• Visual, Tactile, and Multimodal Information Processing
• Applying Cognitive Psychology to System Development
• The Role Personality in Ergonomics
• Psychosocial Work Factors
• Biomechanical Modeling of the Shoulder
• Application of Ergonomics to the Low Back
• Application of Ergonomics to the Legs
• Application of Ergonomics of the Foot
• Noise in Industry
• Shiftwork
• Vibrometry

Assessment Tools

• Overview of Ergonomic Assessment
• Low Back Injury Risk Assessment Tools
• Cognitive Task Analysis - A Review
• Subjective Scales of Effort and Workload Assessment
• Rest Allowances
• Wrist Posture in Office Work
• The ACGIH TLV® for Hand Activity Level
• An Assessment Technique for Postural Loading on the Upper Body (LUBA)
• The Washington State SHARP Approach to Exposure Assessment
• Upper Extremity Analysis of the Wrist
• Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation
• Psychophysical Approach to Task Analysis
• Static Biomechanical Modeling in Manual Lifting
• Industrial Lumbar Motion Monitor
• The ACGIH TLV® for Low Back Risk

Index

Also available from C.H.I.P.S.:
The Occupational Ergonomics Handbook Two-Volume Set

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