Even though Ergonomics principles and simple risk assessment checklist can be used as a micro productivity tool in shopfloor to improve the productivity, safety aspects, most of the small, medium size organizations are not fully leveraging ergonomics principles and its application in process design.
Some of the misconceptions prevail among manufacturing professionals as we have gathered through our interactions
1.Ergonomics for product design not for process
2.Ergonomics can be applied in large organization
3.Ergonomics study can be done by scholars or external consultants
4.Difficult to teach to shopfloor people
5.Ergonomics is more related to Safety, health and environment and nothing to do with people morale and productivity
In fact, with a simple checklist and little bit awareness on ergonomics principles, shopfloor operators, supervisors, managers can apply and identify the fatigue risk areas and implement simple solutions as we have witnessed in many SME manufacturing organizations.
Some of the misconceptions prevail among manufacturing professionals as we have gathered through our interactions
1.Ergonomics for product design not for process
2.Ergonomics can be applied in large organization
3.Ergonomics study can be done by scholars or external consultants
4.Difficult to teach to shopfloor people
5.Ergonomics is more related to Safety, health and environment and nothing to do with people morale and productivity
In fact, with a simple checklist and little bit awareness on ergonomics principles, shopfloor operators, supervisors, managers can apply and identify the fatigue risk areas and implement simple solutions as we have witnessed in many SME manufacturing organizations.
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