Agricultural Ergonomic Risk Assessment Tool(AERAT)
Agriculture is a very hard industry based on its seasonal periods, unorganized working sectors, and social costs due to ill health and inclement work environments. Therefore, long term exposure to materials handling, awkward work postures and combined stresses of work environment can be devastating. Even though statistics have shown agricultural activity to be one of the most hazardous activities in the world, there is very little history of the application of ergonomic principles to agricultural work environments. Ergonomic principles and methodologies applied to agriculture need to consider the dynamic factors that are not traditionally considered in other industries. Despite technological development in many areas of this industry, agricultural workers are still exposed to high workload demands which, in many cases, are higher than their work capacity. This is an important paradox in ergonomics where most efforts have focused on traditional manufacturing environments.
Lawrence J. H. Schulze Carmen Madriz
University of Houston,Houston, TX 77204-4008, 713-743-4196 School of Engineering and Industrial Production, Costarican Institute of Technology, Cartago,Costa R
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-9
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）