"Discusses the strategies to effectively use design in order to enhance human well-being and work efficiency"--
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Text Book of Work Study and Ergonomics
Work Study and Ergonomics
These principles have been addressed in this book in order to develop better understanding of the subject in the minds of readers pertaining to topics such as productivity, work and method study with measurements and ergonomics.
Author: P. C. Tewari
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1138049557
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In the present era of liberalization, privatization and globalization, industrial growth is probably the most critical factor while analyzing a country's economy. Sustenance of industry primarily depends on its productivity levels in the highly competitive environment. Productivity enhancement can be achieved by using the principles of industrial engineering such as Work Study and Ergonomics. These principles have been addressed in this book in order to develop better understanding of the subject in the minds of readers pertaining to topics such as productivity, work and method study with measurements and ergonomics.A Manager s Guide to Work Study
Both work study and ergonomics have to do with job design and in a humane
society the best practices of each should coincide . Unfortunately , the contact
between work study and ergonomics has been all too sparse . Ergonomics , as a
multi ...
Author: Owen Gilbert
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ISBN: UCAL:B4523539
Category: Methods engineering
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Work Study and Related Management Services
4 RELATED FUNCTIONS Two important functions related to work study are
ergonomics and operational research . These are considered in the following
sections . 2 . 41 ERGONOMICS Ergonomics is concerned with the conditions
under ...
Author: Dennis Ainsworth Whitmore
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ISBN: UCAL:B4523538
Category: Production management
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International Labour Documentation
Work Study
It is tools such as these that work study personnel should study and employ , as
and when the need arises . Ergonomics ( ERGOS : work - NOMOS : natural laws )
Ergonomics is usually described as the scientific study of the relationship ...
Author: J. A. Larkin
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ISBN: UCAL:B4523540
Category: Methods engineering
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Protecting Workers from Ergonomic Hazards
Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Employment, Safety, and Training of the
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and ... Automation is a very infrequent
outcome of an ergonomics job study . level of prication and the beneessary , in
my ...
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Subcommittee on Employment, Safety, and Training
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Proceedings P3 03 Ergonomics XIX World Congress IUFRO Montreal Canada August 1990
... improving labour productivity and working conditions on the basis of work
study and ergonomic study . The publication and dissemination of a monograph
entitled " Ergonomics applied to forestry - the Chilean case " , in which the work
done ...
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Category: Forests and forestry
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Proceedings of Conference on Ergonomics in Industry 27 29 September 1960
But the purpose should be to introduce ergonomics as part of the whole
management team effort and not as an expertise which is imposed upon
management . In my view , where a company employs the techniques of work
study , there may ...
Author: Great Britain. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
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ISBN: UCAL:$B3282
Category: Human engineering
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Training for Work Study Practice
Limits of study . Work study practitioner ' s role in achieving proper selection .
Advice to management . Recording : techniques of recording . Sequence ... of
application of ergonomic theories and their relation to method study . Method
study ...
Author: Great Britain. Department of Employment
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ISBN: STANFORD:36105038477290
Category: Job analysis
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Co ordinated Work Measurement
The term work study includes : 1 Method and motion study 2 Work measurement
3 Organization and methods 4 Ergonomics . Techniques used in connection with
work study are as follows : 1 Charts and diagrams 2 Filming 3 Questions and ...
Author: Brian Piercy
Publisher: International Ideas
ISBN: UVA:X000659591
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 200
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British Technology Index
Productivity
Contribution of ergonomics is of direct significance to industry in cutting out
optimum working methods . Production engineer and work study expert are main
beneficiaries of this discipline . Distinction between ergonomics and work study is
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Category: Industrial productivity
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Work Study in the Kitchen
Appendix 11 More to read Work study Work Study by R . M . Currie , a BIM
Publication , Pitman Paperbacks Work in the Home by Rose E . Steidl and Esther
Crew Bratton , John Wiley and Sons Ergonomics Ergonomics – Man in his
working ...
Author: Johanna Senior
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ISBN: CORNELL:31924000588065
Category: Human engineering
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Ergonomics at Work
In some respects , for example , ergonomics has many features in common with
Work Study and with Time and Motion Study . Unfortunately , however , both of
these disciplines enjoy considerable popular notoriety which could interfere with
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Author: David J. Oborne
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 0471909432
Category: Psychology
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Looks at the communication links between people and their man-made environment such as workplaces, controls, displays, etc., and considers features of this environment which can affect performance, comfort and safety. It is used in many courses on ergonomics, management and safety. Although the structure of the Second Edition remains the same as in the first, a number of chapters have been extensively rewritten and expanded. More information has been added relating ergonomics concepts to modern technology as well as to basic aspects of body mobility. Features of the environment have been covered in more depth and the list of references has been lengthened.Cumulated Index Medicus
( Study of women with hirsutism ) González Gutiérrez amino acids given per
abomasum . ... 74 : 861-2 , 1967 ( Fr ) Ergonomics 10 : 589-604 , Sep 67 (
Disinfection of wool and sheepskin in bradsot ] The contribution of ergonomics to
work study .
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Method Study
ERGONOMICS , WORKPLACE LAYOUT AND WORKING ENVIRONMENTS or i
Having devised an improved sequence of carrying out a job , the work study
officer must ensure that the workplace is laid out in a manner which enables the
job ...
Author: Alan Fields
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: UCAL:B4523535
Category: Methods engineering
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Ergonomics in Developing Countries
These are structured in three departments : training department ; ergonomic
laboratory ; information documentation centre . REFA training is structured in
modular way 80 that , starting with a basic course of work study and design , step
by step ...
Author: International Labour Office
Publisher: International Labour Organisation
ISBN: UCAL:B313100
Category: Developing countries
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Human Factors Engineering Bibliographic Series
R 14 29 , 878 Wel ford , A . T . THE ERGONOMIC APPROACH TO SOCIAL
BEHAVIOUR . ... The existence of this close relationship is most encouraging and
means that the work - study engineer would be able to relate his assessments to
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