ABSTRACT

NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health), the U.S. federal agencies charged with protecting worker safety and health.

Ergonomics is a holistic approach to work layout that is rooted in achieving the best possible match of worker attributes and capabilities to the design and conguration of a work task. As such, application of ergonomic principles requires many considerations, including human anthropometry, biomechanics, work physiology, visual capabilities, and virtually every aspect of the physical environment [6]. Increasingly, there has been appreciation for the way that work is organized and prevention strategies that, in addition to physical stressors, also consider macro-ergonomic and psychosocial stressors and their in¢uence on outcomes for WMSDs [7].