Increasingly products and services result from interactions among people who work across
organizational, geographical, cultural and temporal boundaries. This has major implications …

Objectives: Despite national mandates, incentives, and other programs, the design of health
information technology (IT) remains problematic and usability problems continue to be …

This paper analyzes the impact of a large-scale safety-in-design initiative during the design
and construction of a semiconductor manufacturing facility in the Pacific Northwest of the …

For years integration of ergonomics into the planning of new production processes has been
an ideal for regulating agencies supported by ergonomic experts. But the ideal appears to …

This paper presents a conceptual framework that can support efforts to integrate human
factors (HF) into the work system design process, where improved and cost-effective …

Three themes likely to be important within health-related ergonomics in the coming years
are discussed. The first two themes concern methods for risk analysis of low-level …

Completely revised and updated, taking the scientific rigor to a whole new level, the second
edition of the Occupational Ergonomics Handbook is now available in two volumes. This …

The development of construction processes and systems aimed at technological innovations
that can effectively contribute to the evolution of the construction process of a building is …

Ergonomic standards to be used in engineering design are at present being developed
throughout the world. However, not much is known about how ergonomic criteria function in …

Efforts to improve worker safety on construction sites can take many forms. While safety
hazard mitigation measures have traditionally been implemented solely by the builder …