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The Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) is a tool developed by Dr. Sue Hignett and Dr. Lynn McAtamney which was published July 1998 in the Applied Ergonomics journal. This measurement device was designed to be a tool that health and safety professionals could use in the field to assess posture techniques in the workplace.
Diagram of good ergonomic practices in an office setting (in German) Ergonomics tries to fit the job to the worker, not the worker to the job. [8] Whenever there is a worker and a job, there will be ergonomic considerations. Commonly, ergonomic issues can arise in an office setting.
In general, ergonomic improvements are changes made to improve the fit between the demands of work tasks and the capabilities of your workers. There are usually many options for improving a particular manual handling task. It is up to you to make informed choices about which improvements will work best for particular tasks.
The journal was established in 2000 and is published by Taylor & Francis. The co-editors are Waldemar Karwowski (University of Central Florida) and Dylan Schmorrow (Chief Scientist, Soar Technology). [2] TIES publishes 6 issues per year, [1] and it is affiliated with the International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics. [1]
Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the field of Ergonomics. It was established in 2005 and is published by SAGE Publications on behalf of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. It is abstracted and indexed in Scopus.
Human Factors is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes scientific studies in ergonomics. The editor-in-chief is Patricia R. DeLucia (Rice University). It was established in 1958 and is published by SAGE Publications in association with the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
In 2008, to mark the journal's 50th year of publication, a special issue of "Ergonomics" (Volume 51, Number 1) was published, guest edited by Neville A. Stanton and Rob Stammers, covering the history of the society and including a re-print of the Ergonomics Research Society lecture given by Sir Frederick Bartlett in 1962.
Part 1: (1997) Ergonomic requirements for office work with visual display terminals (VDTs) : General Introduction This part introduces the multi-part standard ISO 9241 for the ergonomic requirements for the use of visual display terminals for office tasks and explains some of the basic underlying principles.