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Ergonomics: Workplace Layout and Design
Sept 17, 2013
Presented by: Kathleen Collins, Health and Safety Manager
Drake International
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– A brief analysis of your workplace layout and design
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Agenda
• Cost of Business
• Important Workplace Factor Ergonomics
• Employers Focusing on Layout & Design
• Preventative versus Reactive Workplaces
• Psychological-Sociological Impacts
• Physiological Impacts
• Workplace Materials
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Cost of Business
• Musculoskeletal disorders
• 26.5 Billion in Canada (1994)
• Muscles
• Joints
• Tendons
• Ligaments
• Nerves
• Most Cases 50% of all workers compensation
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Cost of Business
• ISO 9000:2000 movement of Total Quality
Management
• “Quality principles to all aspects of the operation
and meeting customer needs by doing things
right the first time.” (Philip Crosby)
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Cost of Business: Quality
• Conformance to standards
• Prevention versus correction
• Performance standard must mean defect-free
work
• Saves money
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Important Workplace Factors:
Ergonomics
Aim of Ergonomics:
• Health & Safety
• Productivity
• Efficiency
• Reliability
• Quality
• Job Satisfaction
• Personal Development
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Workplace Layout & Design
• One-size fits all?
• Vitruvian Man
• Study of Anthropometrics
• Anthropometrics averages
significant impact of design
• Examples: Facial structures,
height hips, arms, legs
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Workplace Layout Design
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Workplace Layout & Design
Key Items to consider in Layout & Design
• Worker and workplace
• Worker
• Muscular force demands
• Working postures & movements
• Time demand
• Repetition
• ***Decision Making***
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Workplace Layout & Design
• Workplace
• Performance- meeting goals & objectives through
efficiency and effectiveness
• Material Input> Workplace> Product
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Workplace Layout & Design
• Impacts external customers
• Impacts internal customers
• Impacts positive & negative experience
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Preventative vs. Reactive
Can you improve efficiency and
effectiveness in your organization through
workplace design and layout?
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Psychosocial & Physical Impacts
• Human Factors
• Monotony
• Intensity & Duration
• Environment & Climate
• Mental Causes
• Disease/Injury
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Workplace Materials
• Material Handling
• Vehicles
• Equipment
• Machines
• Tools
• Devices
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Ergonomics Consideration
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