The occupational ergonomics handbook. Fundamentals and assessment tools for occupational ergonomics / edited by William S. Marras, Waldemar Karwowski.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
2nd ed.
Published/​Created
Boca Raton, FL : CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006.
Description
1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations

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Subject(s)
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Series
  • Occupational Ergonomics Handbook, Second Edition. [More in this series]
  • The Occupational Ergonomics Handbook, Second Edition
Summary note
Part 1 introduces the discipline and profession of ergonomics, including the systems approach and human-centered design, quality management, risk theory in human-machine systems, legal issues, cost justification for implementing ergonomics, interventions, as well as professional certification and education issues. Part 2 focuses on ergonomics assessment methods and tools and their validity.
Notes
Revised edition of: The occupational ergonomics handbook. CRC Press, 1999.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Language note
English.
Contents
  • A guide to certification in professional ergonomics
  • Magnitude of occupationally-related musculoskeletal disorders
  • 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
  • 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
  • PLIBEL, a method assigned for identification of ergonomics hazards
  • The ACGIH TLV for hand activity level
  • REBA and RULA : whole body and upper limb rapid assessment tools
  • 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.
Other title(s)
Fundamentals and assessment tools for occupational ergonomics
ISBN
  • 1420003631 ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781420003635 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0429123426
  • 9780429123429
  • 1280516933
  • 9781280516931
  • 9786610516933
  • 6610516936
OCLC
244637066
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