EXPLAINING PRACTITIONER SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES VIEW IN WORKPLACE ERGONOMICS
ViVA applied a human factors approach, curating stories from practitioners in a new book, Ergonomic Insights. The book provided balanced views on ergonomic implementation strategies, included successes and challenges.
PROJECT LEAD
Dr Sara Pazell, principal co-editor
PROJECT TEAM
PARTNERED WITH
Assoc/Prof Nektarios Karanikas, co-editor; Taylor & Francis, Publisher
Context
Ergonomics is essential as a workplace intervention because it is a science and design practice of optimising interactions among workers, their social and physical environments, equipment, and tasks. By designing optimum work system features, ergonomics improves productivity, health, wellbeing, cultural aspects, and safety at work.
Challenge
Practitioners may apply the best theoretical premises to their work, but the realities of implementing ergonomics in workplaces can be challenging. It is important to learn from success cases as well as implementation challenges.
Approach
The ViVA human factors researchers commenced co-editing and book writing. They gathered stories from experienced practitioners who shared their human factors, systems-oriented views on ergonomics implementations, successes, and challenges.
Outcomes
ViVA curated and contributed to the co-edited story-telling and publication of a new book, Ergonomics Insights: Successes and Failures of Work Design. This approach ensured balanced views on implementation strategies, opportunities, and constraints so that readers could learn from these stories and continue to make improvements.