ergonomist

The role of the ergonomist is essentially an advisory one.

The choice is made by the ergonomist in the constraints and circumstances.

The technical specialist who represents the people point of view implicit in the approach just described is the ergonomist.

It is rather difficult to extract a maxim or a rule in the choose of a situation that the ergonomist will do.

Until 1978 he taught in Ingolstadt and then became a consultant ergonomist.

No need to be a certified ergonomist to guess which one will be used the most:

Mr. Stephens is an industrial engineer and ergonomist who studies the movements required in work.

A specialist who identifies workplace situations that contribute to repetitive-motion injuries (an ergonomist).

It is with the demand analysis and hypothesis he has made during the pre-diagnosis that the ergonomist will be able to choose situations to consider:

He is a Certified Canadian Ergonomist.

"The real fight is philosophical, with those who view a chair as furniture," said Mr. Dainoff, the ergonomist.

During his studies he did a thesis on applied systems theory with Professor Paul Tahon, ergonomist.

The ergonomist has to believe that work is a good thing and that to conduct it efficiently is always better than to conduct it inefficiently.

J. W. Drukker (economist, historian, ergonomist)

This service may simply be as a source of information or the ergonomist can have more power in that the design decisions involving people have to be approved by him.

Typically, an ergonomist will have an undergraduate degree in psychology, engineering, design or health sciences, and usually a masters degree or doctoral degree in a related discipline.

In summary, although the basic contribution of the ergonomist is to the design of information interfaces these interfaces extend far beyond the man-machine interface found in the control room.

The former is likely to be using mechanism-based models with people as ancillaries while the ergonomist will be using models of people with mechanisms as ancillaries.

For good cooperation it is essential that the engineer has some grasp of ergonomics and that the ergonomist understands at least in general terms the technical situation in the particular industry.

The ergonomist will begin his investigation by the consideration of what the personnel actually do in their jobs which have emerged and been refined by practice and personal preference rather than design.

For this reason, the ergonomist must focus its ergonomic analysis of work activity: it is in and by the activity of the operator in creating the effects of working conditions.

Then about five years ago his son Andrew, an ergonomist in Silicon Valley, saw an old typewriter in a shop in California and bought it as decoration for his office.

Dan Odell, Microsoft's hardware ergonomist, said the unusual shape put the keys closer to the fingers, reducing reach and unnecessary motion while encouraging a more natural and comfortable typing position.

Competent market research should cover these aspects but the ergonomist can remind the policy-makers that such evidence is needed and that it should be acquired by studies of people which are properly conducted.

Dr. Laura Punnett, an ergonomist and epidemiologist at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, said "historically there's been lots of underreporting" of these disorders.