'To Promote environment for persons at work which is ADAPTED to their physiological and psychological needs'.
The above object, simply means ERGONOMICS. So what is Ergonomics?
Ergonomics, from two words of Greek origin - Ergon which means work and Nomos - Natural laws. Ergonomics simply means FITTING the work environment to the worker capability using scientific approach.
The key words here are: FITTING, WORK ENVIRONMENT, WORKER CAPABILITY and SCIENTIFIC APPROACH.
Fitting is the process of designing and arranging the work environment so that it is suitable to the human capability. This process of fitting the work environment to the worker capability should be based on scientific approach. Therefore Ergonomics is a field which consist of multiple disciplines of knowledge from human anthropometry, physiology to industrial engineering.
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