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Course code: ICSS10016o17Semester: 2017/2018 winter
Name: Ergonomics
Major: Safety Engineering
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: Marek Brennensthul PhD, Łukasz Kuta PhD
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Student explains the importance of ergonomics in formation of safety and comfortable work conditions. Student knows the influence of factors occurring at the workplaces on ergonomic conditions. Student knows basic assumptions of anthropometric designing. Skills Student has the skills to ergonomic designing of the workplaces. Student can point the factors affecting the ergonomic conditions; Student can evaluate the intensity of these factors impact on human. Student has the skills to evaluate of human workload.
Competences: Student is aware of the importance of ergonomic conditions for the health and safety of working people.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of physics, human biology and mathematics (secondary education level)
Course content: Ergonomics includes projecting and correction of mobile as well as stationary workplaces. Furthermore, elementary requirements are given to create a new work station. The exposure to external factors and occupational disease are also considered. Ergonomics encompasses a behavior of workers during working day and many different qualitative method to describe comfort position at work. Ergonomics as an interdisciplinary science. The history and achievements of ergonomics. The range of recently ergonomics. The methodology of ergonomic designing. Basic ergonomic system (human-machine-environment system). Perception in work processes. The features of human and machine in ergonomic system (Fitts’ list). Anthropometry and its use in formation of workplaces; geometry of workplaces. The workload; physical workload and effort; the assessment of energy expenditure at dynamic works. The methods of evaluation of dynamic and static loads. The threats to the musculo-skeletal system. The mental workload; methods of assessment. Stress and mobbing at work. Selected factors taken into account by workplaces formation: microclimate, mechanical vibrations, audible noise, radiations, lighting. Methods of workplaces optimization according to influence of harmful and onerous factors. The social aspects of ergonomics; the importance of society knowledge in creation of ergonomic conditions of work.
Recommended literature: 1. Bridger R. S. Introduction to ergonomics; 3rd edition. CRC Press 2009. 2. Stanton N. i in. Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics Methods, CRC Press 2005.
Assessment methods: Written test, group reports of the exercises. Social competences Evaluation of the student’s activity at classes
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