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Introduction to Ergonomics

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Importance of Ergonomics

Business Importance of Ergonomics

Every organization wants to increase organization-wide efficiency, maintain employee productivity, reduce job-related accidents, and improve customer satisfaction.  Utilizing ergonomic principles makes business sense because adjusting jobs to better fit workers supports all of the above goals. 

  • Why take twice as long to complete a job if you don’t have to?
  • Why risk bodily injury if you don’t have to?
  • Why have moderate customer satisfaction when you could have GREAT customer satisfaction?

Good ergonomics does not solve all organizational problems but employing these principles assists workers and …

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For more information on the business importance of ergonomics see:

1. Hendrick, H.W. (1996). Good ergonomics is good economics. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 40th Annual Meeting, 1-15.