ABSTRACT
There is also substantial social and legal support for incorporating Ergonomics into today’s work place. The central social trend involves accommodating workers with diverse physical capabilities and disabilities. This has meant that simple rules of denying people of a certain age, gender, race, or apparent disability a fair opportunity to perform a job are no longer valid. For instance, an allowable weight-lifting standard recommended in the middle 1960s by the International Standards Organization is no longer valid in many countries because it discriminates against women and people of advanced age by stating limits for these groups that are far below those for a younger male. It has been realized in recent years that a person’s physical attributes, such as strength, flexibility, and endurance vary greatly within gender and age groups.
