There is a growing perception in the industry that ergonomics is important, not only for the comfort, safety and health of the worker, but to improve productivity and quality in manufacturing. Brazilian companies have ...

The price reduction of air tickets in Brazil has raised the flow of passengers, as well as the diversity of people utilizing kind of transport. Some specific groups need differentiated services in relation to others and ...

Building actions related to health and safety in small and medium enterprises are not easy tasks, since these enterprises need to deal with poor information, lack of available resources and methodologies developed according ...

This research is based upon theoretical concepts from Work Ergonomics Analysis, Action-Research and Occupational Health fields. The study approaches the capacitation experience of an Ergonomics Committee at the Brazilian ...

The Motion Capture technology is considered a potential to overcome the limitations of traditional human simulation, reducing the time spent on creating and assigning greater reality simulations the simulated movements. ...

This study discusses the stage of demand assessment of a corporate ergonomic program from a big company in the mechanical metal sector of high aggregated value. The topics covered in this work present the approach, ...

The changing in the labor dynamics of the sugarcane harvesting, occasioned by integration of mechanical harvesters, has subjected workers to new working conditions, increasing the interactions with machines, and consequently ...

This work aims to understand the activity of people who work in food preparation at school from an understanding of the factors that influence and determine that work. The need arose from the demand of the city of São ...

This research has, with main objective, the construction of activity ergonomics management model that is related operations strategies, developed from practical experience in the company with metal - mechanics production ...

There is a distance between a design as planed and one developed effectively. It varies according to both the constraints involved in the design process and accuracy of design conception. Many projects are designed without ...