ABSTRACT

Sadly, Paul Branton died before his over-arching view of a person-centred approach to ergonomics could be written with authority. Shortly before his death, with Fernando Leal, he began to prepare a manuscript in which his various thoughts were intended to coalesce, but the depth and breadth of the task which he set himself was such that completion of it by one individual, or even by a pair of individuals, was an ambitious hope. Equally unrealistic would be for others to detail his view in anything more than a superficial manner. The aim of the preceding chapters was to begin to extract the salient features from the Brantonian View of ergonomics and to present them to the reader as a starting point for further thought and development.