Objectives and competences
Objectives:
• Student will gain in-depth knowledge about ergonomic workplace design using advanced facilities.
• Student will know how to use different methods and techniques for work and workplace design.
• Student will know how to analyse gained results of different methods and techniques and to assess them regarding benefits and weaknesses of selected methods.
• Student will gain knowledge about digital data capturing of worker’s movements with sensors suit.
• Student will know to give guidelines for using different ergonomics methods performed digitally, regarding different working environments.
Competences:
• In-depth knowledge about ergonomic workplace design using advanced facilities.
• Ability to use different methods and techniques for workplace design.
• Knowledge about digital data capturing approach.
Ability to use and assess different analyses regarding the workplace demands
Content (Syllabus outline)
Content:
• Basic principles of ergonomic workplace design.
• Working environment and its effects on worker (noise, illumination, temperature, humidity, air velocity).
• Human strain and stress in the work system.
• Ergonomic tests and evaluation methods.
• Digital approach - computer aided work and workplace design based on anthropology.
• Digital data capturing - performance of computer simulations and ergonomics analysis with the use of modern research equipment (Xsens sensors suit, RIUM)
Intended learning outcomes - knowledge and understanding
Knowledge and understanding:
• In-depth knowledge about ergonomic workplace design.
• Knowledge how to use different ergonomics analyses manually and with computer software.
• Independent performance of ergonomics analyses.
• Assessment of different ergonomics solutions regarding working environment’s demands.
• Knowledge and understanding the meaning of different ergonomics methods.
• Knowledge and understanding the software for ergonomics workplace design.
• In-depth knowledge about digital data capturing and knowledge how to perform and use it.
Readings
• Balantič Z., Polajnar A., Jevšnik S., Ergonomija v teoriji in praksi, Nacionalni inštitut za javno zdravje, Slovenija, 2016.
• Vujica Herzog N., Pregled testov in metod v ergonomiji, Fakulteta za strojništvo, UM, 2016.
• Vujica Herzog N., Ergonomsko oblikovanje delovnih mest, Programski paket Siemens Jack, Univerzitetna založba UM, 2019.
• Vujica Herzog N., Študij dela in ergonomija, Navodila za vaje, Univerzitetna založba UM, 2020.
• A. Polajnar, V. Verhovnik, A. Sabadin, B. Hrašovec: Ergonomija, Univerza v Mariboru, Fakulteta za strojništvo, Maribor, 2003.
• S. N. Chengalur, S. H. Rodgers, T. E. Bernard, Kodak's ergonomic design for people at work, John Wiley & Sons, 2004.
