Ergonomic Workplace Design for Health, Wellness, and Productivity
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Ergonomic Workplace Design for Health, Wellness, and Productivity

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eBook - ePub

Ergonomic Workplace Design for Health, Wellness, and Productivity

About this book

Even with today's mobile technology, most work is still undertaken in a physical workplace. Today's workplaces need to be healthy environments that minimize the risks of illnesses or injuries to occupants to compete in the marketplace. This necessitates the application of good ergonomics design principles to the creation of effective workplaces, and this is the focus of this book.This book will:
· Focus on ergonomic design for better health and ergonomic design for better productivity
· Presents environments that support new ways of working and alternative workplace strategies, as well as the impacts of new technologies
· Covers the role of ergonomics design in creating sustainable workplaces
· Includes ergonomics design for a wide variety of workplaces, from offices to hospitals, to hotels to vehicles, etc…
· Shows the design principles on how to design and create a healthy and productive workplaceThe market lacks an ergonomics design book that covers the topics that this book will cover. This book summarizes design principles for practitioners, and applies them to the variety of workplace settings described in the book. No other book currently on the market does that.

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781466598430
eBook ISBN
9781315356440
Edition
1
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Environmental Science
Index
Biological Sciences
Index
Page numbers followed by f and t indicate figures and tables, respectively.
A
ABW, see Activity-based working (ABW)
Acclimatization, 29
Acoustics; see also Psychoacoustics
in green buildings, 379
occupant experiences, 384–385
healthcare settings, design, 177
improved, activity-based design for, 79
issues in
educational environments, 75–76, 76f
offices, 74–75, 74f, 393
workers in hospital environments, 76, 77f
personality and, 89–93
control of noise and performance, 92–93
extraversion, 89–90
music and distraction, 91–92
neuroticism, 90
noise sensitivity and personality traits, 90–91
openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness, 90
type, task performance affected by, 89–90
Activity-based design, for improved acoustics, 79
Activity-based working (ABW)
agile working and, 415, 417
assessing psychosocial impacts, 363–365
defined, 415
environments, assessing physical activity responses, 362
overview, 354–355, 354f
planning and design, 354
successful implementation, 355–356, 356f
Acute melatonin suppression, in shift workers, 128–129
Adaptive opportunity, defined, 26, 28
Affordable Care Act (ACA), 171
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), 173–174
Agile working, 415, 417
Aging population, see Elderly people
Agreeableness, 88, 90
Ahrend, 161
Airborne transmission, of infectious agents, 49
Air-conditioned offices, health effects, 47–48
Air traffic control towers (ATCTs), 194, 201–202, 202f
Alarm fatigue, 181–182
Alarm management, 200, 206
Alerting system, light as stimulus for, 122–125
Allergy
children with, 55, 211
costs of...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Contributors
  9. SECTION I The Physical Environment
  10. SECTION II Ergonomic Design Issues in Workplaces
  11. SECTION III Emerging Ergonomic Workplace Design Issues
  12. Index