Ergonomic assessment methods identify the exposure of workers to risk factors associated to their workstations. Nowadays, many assessment methods analyze same risk type. For example, to assess manual load handling different ...

Nowadays ergonomists and health and safety professionals apply a great variety of ergonomic assessment methods to the workstations analysis. The aim of this paper is to determinate the degree of applicability of ergonomic ...

Aesthetics becomes an essential factor in consumer goods. Given a set of several products of similar performance, their appearance can make a big difference on the purchase decision. Sometimes, product aesthetics perceived ...

The National Institute of Safety and Hygiene at Work (INSHT) has developed a manual load handling guide, with the purpose of facilitating the fulfillment of the effective legislation for occupational health and safety ...

Environmentally friendly product design consists in systematically considering environmental aspects in all the phases of the life cycle. Sometimes, showing respect to the environment becomes a distinctive element of a ...

Product aesthetics plays a significant and differentiator role on highly competitive markets, so it is reckoned as a strategic factor that the enterprise may use to obtain a competitive sustainable advantage. The manufacturers ...