Who is the workplace designer? — Towards a collaborative mode of action

Launis, M.; Vuori, Mervi; Lehtelä, Jouni

doi:10.1016/0169-8141(95)00058-5

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“…This can be done by a requirements specification document elaborated collectively by production personnel. Launis, Vuori, and Lehtelä (1996) stress that a specific activity such as workplace design does not exist in the organization, no one is responsible, and the engineers are technologically oriented with a lack of work-oriented objectives. A collaborative design process involving different occupational groups is suggested as a strategy to design workplaces with good working conditions.…”

Section: Organizational Factorsmentioning

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Integrating ergonomics into engineering: Empirical evidence and implications for the ergonomists

Broberg

2007

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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Engineering design is a strong determinant of workplace ergonomics. A survey among 680 engineers in 20 Danish enterprises indicated that engineers are not aware that they influence the work environment of other people. Ergonomics had a low rating among engineers, perhaps because neither management nor safety organizations expressed any expectations in this area. The study further indicated that effects of ergonomics training in engineering schools were very limited. The engineering cultures in enterprises, together with other organizational factors, are suggested to be of greater importance than the professional training. The implications for industrial ergonomists might be an acknowledgement of the role as change agent when trying to integrate ergonomics into engineering. In doing so, they need also to acknowledge that engineers are widely different. They have different backgrounds and a "sensitivity" to ergonomics depending on their current engineering domain, tasks, organizational position, and the industrial branch of their organization.

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Section: Organizational Factorsmentioning

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Integrating ergonomics into engineering: Empirical evidence and implications for the ergonomists

Broberg

2007

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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“…In reaction to the systems perspective of design, it has been suggested that ergonomics specialists must embrace a new role to improve their effectiveness at eliciting change within organizations: the role of the 'change agent' -focusing on preparing for and facilitating change within organizations (Badham & Ehn, 2000;Broberg & Hermund, 2004;Hasle & Jensen, 2006;Jensen, 2002;Launis et al, 1996;Wulff et al, 1999a). This idea is supported by the observation that ergonomists working in the 'change agent' role can support application and improve adoption of ergonomics related regulations by design engineers (Jensen, 2001;Wulff et al, 1999a) as well as the failure of regulations alone to sufficiently improve health and safety (Jensen, 2001;Rasmussen, 1997;Wulff et al, 1999a).…”

Section: Ergonomistsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to this model, groups of designers at each system level influence human factors directly through their design decisions, and indirectly through the interaction of their respective contributions from which human factors problems can emerge (Neumann et al, 2009). These emergent system properties can be difficult to manage in design as influence is dispersed amongst design groups -no one person is in control of human factors (Launis et al, 1996).…”

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Industrial Engineers on their Current Practice: Implications for the Integration of Social and Technical Sub-Systems in Work System Design

Mekitiak¹

2021

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“…2004). Kun otetaan huomioon ergonomia hoitotyössä, parannetaan hoitajan ja hoidettavan turvallisuutta, hyvinvointia ja terveyttä sekä hoitotyön tehokasta ja häiriötöntä toimintaa (Launis & Lehtelä 2011). Ergonomisten nostolaitteiden avulla voidaankin ehkäistä tuki-ja liikuntaelinten vaurioita (Ranne 2008;Joseph ym.…”

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Re‐engineering of the meal logistics in a sheltered house for elderly people

Aalto

Saari

2009

Facilities

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Purpose -The goal of this study is to perform an economic comparison of alternative service concepts designed to improve the productivity of nursing care in a refurbishment project of selected sheltered housing facility. Design/methodology/approach -Four different service development options were identified for the dining and kitchen facilities: the dining facilities were either decentralised or centralised, and the meals were prepared on site or brought in from outside. Findings -The form of dining model chosen affected the operating costs more than the spatial costs. The biggest differences in operating costs were attributable to the meal price and to the costs of transferring disabled residents to the dining area. The study showed that the option which had the lowest spatial costs surprisingly had the highest total costs. This was the option in which the meals were conveyed to the decentralised dining rooms located on the different floors by the food supplier. The total costs of this option were 50 per cent higher than the total costs of the decentralised option with on-site cooking facilities. The centralised dining option with externalised food service had considerably lower renovation costs but 15 per cent higher total costs than the lowest cost option (decentralised dining option with own kitchen). Originality/value -The paper provides a practical model for taking into account not only remodelling costs but also operating costs in total cost calculations of the remodelling process.

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Who is the workplace designer? — Towards a collaborative mode of action

Cited by 19 publications

References 2 publications

Integrating ergonomics into engineering: Empirical evidence and implications for the ergonomists

Integrating ergonomics into engineering: Empirical evidence and implications for the ergonomists

Industrial Engineers on their Current Practice: Implications for the Integration of Social and Technical Sub-Systems in Work System Design

Re‐engineering of the meal logistics in a sheltered house for elderly people

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