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ERGONOMICS – ALSO KNOWN AS HUMAN FACTOR ENGINEERING
Ergonomics is a scientific study of human being and his environment. Incompatibility between this is a major cause for low productivity
Incompatibility can arise on account of following factors
1. Physical factors : physical fitness required for performing the job is lacking – problem with vision due to size of display, distance, lighting, weak eyesight. Sharp edged controls, shape of the control is not suitable for handhold, poor access to controls, tools or material. Physical factors in the environment like heat, humidity, dust and ventilation also play significant role in making man and his environment compatible with each other
2. Physiological factors: jet lag due to incompatibility between body clock and clock on the wall – sleepy and hungry at wrong time.
3. Anatomical factors – BMS students writing their exam paper in a high school, a young boy wearing his father’s shoes. A person’s height and weight [physical stature] can make him incompatible with his environment
4. Intellectual factors - a pilot sometimes being given the altitude instructions in FPS system and some times in MKS system. If a person’s ability to process the information for decision-making is impeded, productivity suffers.
Such incompatibilities cause
a. Great physical and mental discomfort, and as a result stress on worker
b. Delay in responding to situations
c. Great fatigue and irritability
d. Wrong decisions
e. Physical and mental fatigue
And adversely affect the output. Study of ergonomics is study of all these factors in order to make improvements to create a conducive interface between workman and his environment i.e. his machine
Ergonomics is a scientific study of human being and his environment. Incompatibility between this is a major cause for low productivity
Incompatibility can arise on account of following factors
1. Physical factors : physical fitness required for performing the job is lacking – problem with vision due to size of display, distance, lighting, weak eyesight. Sharp edged controls, shape of the control is not suitable for handhold, poor access to controls, tools or material. Physical factors in the environment like heat, humidity, dust and ventilation also play significant role in making man and his environment compatible with each other
2. Physiological factors: jet lag due to incompatibility between body clock and clock on the wall – sleepy and hungry at wrong time.
3. Anatomical factors – BMS students writing their exam paper in a high school, a young boy wearing his father’s shoes. A person’s height and weight [physical stature] can make him incompatible with his environment
4. Intellectual factors - a pilot sometimes being given the altitude instructions in FPS system and some times in MKS system. If a person’s ability to process the information for decision-making is impeded, productivity suffers.
Such incompatibilities cause
a. Great physical and mental discomfort, and as a result stress on worker
b. Delay in responding to situations
c. Great fatigue and irritability
d. Wrong decisions
e. Physical and mental fatigue
And adversely affect the output. Study of ergonomics is study of all these factors in order to make improvements to create a conducive interface between workman and his environment i.e. his machine