Ergonomic Checkpoints: Practical and Easy-to-implement Solutions for Improving Safety, Health and Working Conditions - Softcover
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Fully revised and expanded, this new edition of the highly successful Ergonomic Checkpoints is aimed at reducing work-related accidents and diseases and improving safety, health, and working conditions. Building on the wealth of experience of practitioners in applying these checkpoints, the second edition features revised text, additional checkpoints, and new, full-color illustrations. The manual presents 132 realistic and flexible solutions to ergonomic problems applicable across a whole range of workplace situations, including · Materials storage and handling · Hand tools · Machine safety · Workstation design · Lighting · Premises · Control of hazardous substances and agents · Welfare facilities · Work organization Each of the illustrated checkpoints indicates an action, why it is necessary, and how to carry it out and provides further hints and points to remember. A template checklist is also included, which can be adapted to individual workplaces. The manual is designed for use by all who are concerned with creating a better workplace. Prepared by the International Labor Office in collaboration with the International Ergonomics Association
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This is a compilation of 128 "ergonomic solutions" which identify simple and inexpensive solutions to ergonomic problems in a variety of workplace and local situations. The checkpoints which can be used to check working conditions of workplace plans, cover storage and handling, hand tools, machine safety, workstation design, lighting, premises, hazardous substances, welfare facilities and work organization. Each checkpoint is illustrated, and a complete ergonomic checklist is included. Users of the manual should learn various simple solutions that are applicable even in small workplaces. The manual includes a complete list of all checkpoints to enable users to carry out surveys with ease. The checkpoints provide guidance based on a number of underlying principles: immediate solutions need to be developed with the active involvement of employers and workers; group work is advantageous for planning and implementing practical improvements; the use of available local material and expertise has many benefits; multifaceted action should ensure that improvements are sustained over time; and continuing action programmes are needed to create improvements.
Field tests of ergonomic checkpoints have demonstrated that it can be used effectively by safety and health personnel, engineers, designers, workers, employers, supervisors and educators, to evaluate and improve existing working conditions and to design workplaces."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Ergonomic Checkpoints : Practical and Easy-To- Implement Solutions for Improving Safety , Health and Working Conditions
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International Labour Organization, 1996
ISBN 10: 9221094421
ISBN 13: 9789221094425
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Soft cover
Seller: EZReading, Livingston, NJ, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: New. This unique compilation of 128 ergonomic checkpoints is intended as an aid to improving safety, health and working conditions. The check points, which can be used to check either workplace conditions on the spot or workplace plans at the design stage, are suited to a wide variety of premises. Seller Inventory # ABE-1515885034392