ABSTRACT
Organization, which state that the “worker participation is an essential element of the OSH management system in the organization” (ILO, 2001).
Ergonomics drifted in the same direction, in particular in a specific domain of ergonomics that is called Participatory Ergonomics (PE). This concept founded its basis in the early 1980’s, and since then, followed the remarkable studies of Noro and Imada (1991), Nagamachi (1995) and Wilson (1995a). As stated by Imada (1991), participatory ergonomics should involve the end-users in planning, developing and implementing workplace changes. The subjacent idea is that “workers know very well what kind of ergonomic problems there are in the workplace” (Jong, 1995), and so they can be useful in the search for solutions.
