SIMPLE VALUE MAKE EVERY DAY BECOME A HEALTHY DAY (ERGONOMICS)

Ergonomics exists is to improve the match between the job and man’s physical abilities, information handling and workload capacities. Its fundamental importance is recognized in the International Labour Organization, which defines ergonomics as:

“The application of the human biological sciences in conjunction with the engineering sciences to the worker and his working environment, so as to obtain maximum satisfaction for the worker which at the same time enhances productivity”

 

The important triad of ergonomics elements is Comfort, Health and Productivity.

The simple value of ergonomics can easily understand and maybe not by anyone who has tried to do a job using the wrong tools. The increase difficulty causes the job to take longer, leading to frustration and loss of temper. This is turn leads to use of excessive force and increase the risk of a slip of the hand and injury. In the wider world of industry and commerce, such problems arising from the poor design of jobs, machines or workplace may lead to large scale inefficiencies, risk taking, increase in accidents and ‘near miss’, and increase in absenteeism related to dissatisfaction with the job. Knowledge of ergonomics is a great value in preventing ill health and injury from work, as well as in rehabilitating. For example, personal protective equipment will not generally be used unless it’s acceptable to the employees, by fitting comfortably and not interfering unduly with the task for which it is need.

 

The consequences without knowing anything about the value of ergonomics it can get the effect that include a range of musculoskeletal disorder such as back pain, or other problems such as so called repetitive strain injury or cumulative trauma disorder (RSI/CTD). By knowing the value it can eventually be prevent from happen to an individual it self and have a healthy life. The simplest definition of ergonomics is “the sciences of making the job fit the worker” or “the application of human sciences to the optimization of people’s working environment”. This is because ergonomics is concerned with the interaction between workers with the job and make the day to be a healthy day.