Ergonomic services
Ergonomic workplace design
Ergonomics is concerned with ensuring work is designed to take account off people, their capabilities and limitations. Ergonomics aims to make sure that tasks, equipment, information and the environment suit each worker. The objective is to optimise health, safety and productivity.
An ergonomic approach is the most efficient way of dealing with workplace problems. This is because an ergonomic approach encourage you to take account of all relevant parts (e.g. equipment, machinery, furniture, the workplace environment) of the work system and it require worker participation.
Ergonomic workplace design is essential in any type of work whether workplace is onshore or offshore. Applying ergonomic techniques for workplaces in environments related to operation, production, manufacturing, construction, service, retail, transportation, maintenance etc., can help reduce risk and demonstrate compliance with occupational health and safety legislations.
Whether your business involves office tasks, an assembly line, a workshop etc., involving the workers and let them take responsibility for their workplace can have a significant impact on their health and comfort.
Good workplace ergonomics may increase productivity and efficiency.
We can provide practical assistance to design workplaces and optimise the fit between people and their workplace.
We can asses people, their jobs, equipment, and working environment and the interaction between them, and as such help you to design safe, effective and productive work systems.
We can provide:
- Work place design assessments
- Work place risk assessments
- Work place mapping
- Ergonomic Task Analysis
- Display screen (DSE) assessment
- Advice and guidance on interventions to reduce risk
- Education and training
Why Ergonomics?
Many ergonomic issues may be due to inappropriate design or layout of the workplace. Weather these are related to equipment, machinery, furniture, or the workplace environment, ergonomics can be used to optimise the fit between people and their workplace, thereby increasing their comfort, minimising the risks to health and providing the basis for more efficient working.
Human Factors and ergonomics are highly related to industrial safety!
Read what Martin Helander has written in A guide to the ergonomics of manufacturing (1995) and A guide to Human Factors and Ergonomics (2006).