The occupational ergonomics handbook. Interventions, controls, and applications in 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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Library of Congress genre(s)
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Series
  • Occupational Ergonomics Handbook, Second Edition. [More in this series]
  • The Occupational Ergonomics Handbook, Second Edition
Summary note
Includes coverage of injury surveillance database systems and corporate health management for the design and evaluation of health in industrial organizations, ergonomics processes from the small and large industry perspectives, and human digital modeling, as well as facilities planning and organizational design and macro-ergonomics. Addresses the issues of medical management of work-related musculoskeletal disorders, systems approach to rehabilitation, wrist splints, and application of the clinical lumbar motion monitor.--ERGONOMICSnetBASE description.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Language note
English.
Contents
  • Elements of the ergonomic process
  • Success factors for industrial ergonomics programs
  • Practical interventions in industry using participatory approaches
  • OSHA recordkeeping
  • Psychosocial work factors
  • Injury surveillance database systems
  • Corporate health management : designing and evaluating health in organizations
  • Ergonomics process in small industry
  • An ergonomics process : a large industry perspective
  • Digital human modeling for computer-aided ergonomics
  • Design for ergonomics : facilities planning
  • Organizational design and macroergonomics
  • Engineering controls, what works and what does not
  • General knowledge regarding engineering controls
  • Design and evaluation of handtools
  • Low back disorders : general solutions
  • Ergonomic assist and safety equipment, an overview
  • Gloves
  • Wrist and arm supports
  • Lower extremity supports
  • Administrative controls as an ergonomic intervention
  • Worker selection for physically demanding jobs
  • Training lifting techniques
  • Secondary intervention for low back pain
  • Psychosocial characteristics of work as targets for change
  • Assessment of worker functional capacities
  • Physical ability testing for employment decision purposes
  • Human resources management
  • Workday length and shiftwork issues
  • Back belts
  • Job rotation
  • Epidemiology of upper extremity disorders
  • Medical management of work-related musculoskeletal disorders
  • Systems approach to rehabilitation
  • Postinjury rehabilitation/management
  • Wrist splints
  • Clinical lumbar motion monitor
  • Chairs and furniture
  • The computer keyboard system design
  • Intervention for notebook computers
  • Meatpacking operations
  • Poultry processing
  • Working in unusual or restricted postures
  • Agriculture
  • Grocery distribution centers
  • Patient handling in health care
  • Prevention of medical errors
  • Bakery : cake decorating process
  • Furniture manufacturing industry
  • General construction
  • Introducing ergonomics to developing countries
  • The future of work and an ergonomics response.
Other title(s)
Interventions, controls, and applications in occupational ergonomics
ISBN
  • 142000364X ((electronic bk.))
  • 9781420003642 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0429123434
  • 9780429123436
  • 1280516941
  • 9781280516948
  • 9786610516940
  • 6610516944
OCLC
251418556
Doi
  • 10.1201/9781420003642
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