ABSTRACT
Ergonomics is a discipline that “borrows” from several related branches of science including, but not limited to, psychology, anatomy, physiology and engineering. Activities occurring around the time of World War II have been traditionally described as the beginning of ergonomics (Europe) and human factors engineering (USA). Comparatively, ergonomics is quite young if one uses these chronological landmarks; however, there is a fairly rich body of literature going back to even the previous century that clearly describes investigations of manual work with the purpose of enhancing human performance.
