Módulo de experimentación ergonómica: Importancia de la ergonomía en los puestos de trabajo.

• Autores: Alejandro Hernández, Pedro Marines
• Localización: Ciencias Administrativas y Sociales. Handbook T-III: Congreso Interdisciplinario de Cuerpos Académicos / coord. por Miguel Ángel Ferrer Almaraz, Miriam Estelina Pérez Ríos, 2013, ISBN 978-607-8324-09-5, págs. 310-323
• Idioma: español
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  • This article deals with the ergonomic evaluation of jobs, establishing the relationship of the environment in which it takes place (workplace) and those who perform it (workers). Used to determine how to design or adapt the workplace to the worker to avoid various health problems and to increase efficiency. Its main objective is the elimination of risk factors, these being any detectable characteristic or circumstance of a person or group of people known to associate with an increased chance of suffer, developing, or being exposed to a process that can develop some disease.

    These risk factors include: biological, environmental, behavioral, socio-cultural or economic. These can add to each other and increase the effect insulated each. The methodology used for this study is:

    1. Visual inspections in the workplace to identify potential hazards (Using Ergonomic Risk Level Format).

    1. Application of the method for assessment tasks STEPS.

    2. Rating Manual Handling Tasks (OSHA 2001).

    3. Application of the methodology to RULA, REBA limbs, postures and task multiple repetitions.

    4. Review of factors inherent in the working environment.