Ergonomical Problems from Project-Related Errors and Carelessness on Sidewalk Construction

Abstract

This study was carried out in At&as (population: 60.000) in the interior of Brazil. A categorization of the problems was made about the paved floor surface, which caused to users a series of constraints, difficulties and barriers in their movements. A list of borne problems identified in the sidewalk was elaborated according to its origins, characteristics and ergonomic afiennath. Finally we proposed an intervention in order to solve those problems.