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Reducing Health Complaints in the Computerized Workplace: The Role of Ergonomic Education
Author(s) -
Dainoff Marvin J.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of interior design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.229
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1939-1668
pISSN - 1071-7641
DOI - 10.1111/j.1939-1668.1990.tb00052.x
Subject(s) - human factors and ergonomics , work (physics) , occupational safety and health , position (finance) , component (thermodynamics) , position paper , affect (linguistics) , engineering , participatory ergonomics , business , poison control , medicine , psychology , environmental health , mechanical engineering , physics , communication , finance , pathology , thermodynamics
Increasing pressure from governmental agencies and rising health costs are pressing those responsible for workplace design to be responsible for ergonomic improvements. Understanding the technical aspects of ergonomic applications can bring designers into the pivotal position of being able to specify changes in the office which favorably affect management's bottom line, and, at the same time, to a large extent, free the human beings who work in the office from major health hazards. It is, therefore, increasingly important that design education have an ergonomic component.