The Occupational Ergonomics Handbook. This item is unavailable.The Occupational Ergonomics Handbook

Occupational ergonomics and safety studies the application of human behavior, abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design, testing, and evaluation of tools, machines, systems, tasks, jobs, and environments for productive, safe, comfortable, and effective use.
Occupational Ergonomics Handbook provides current, comprehensive knowledge in this broad field, providing essential, state-of-the-art information from nearly 150 international leaders of this discipline. The text assesses the knowledge and expertise applied to industrial environments:

Providing engineering guidelines for redesigning tools, machines, and work layouts

Evaluating the demands placed on workers by current jobs

Simulating alternative work methods

Determining the potential for reducing physical job demands based on the implementation of new methods
Topics also include:

Fundamental ergonomic design principles at work

Work-related musculoskeletal injuries, such as cumulative trauma to the upper extremity (CTDs) and low back disorders (LBDs), which affect several million workers each year with total costs exceeding $100 billion annually

Current knowledge used for minimizing human suffering, potential for occupational disability, and related worker's compensation costs

Working conditions under which musculoskeletal injuries might occur

Engineering design measures for eliminating or reducing known job-risk factors

Optimal manufacturing processes regarding human perceptual and cognitive abilities as well as task reliability

Identifying the worker population affected by adverse conditions

Early medical and work intervention efforts

Economics of an ergonomics maintenance program

Ergonomics as an essential cost to doing business
Ergonomics intervention includes design for manufacturability, total quality management, and work organization. Occupational Ergonomics Handbook demonstrates how ergonomics serves as a vital component for the activities of the company and enables an advantageous cooperation between management and labor.
This new handbook serves a broad segment of industrial practitioners, including industrial and manufacturing engineers; managers; plant supervisors and ergonomics professionals; researchers and students from academia, business, and government; human factors and safety specialists; physical therapists; cognitive and work psychologists; sociologists; and human-computer communications specialists.

Karwowski; Waldemar University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA,Marras; William S. Ohio State University, Columbus, USA,