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Peacock, Brian, Orr, Gary, Chaffin, Don, Leamon, Tom and Radwin, Rob (1995): The Philosophy of Ergonomics Standards. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 39th Annual Meeting 1995. p. 678.

“The panel will include speakers from Government (Gary Orr), Academia (Don Chaffin), Insurance (Tom Leamon), the HF&ES (Rob Radwin), Industry (Brian Peacock, Panel Chair), the Legal Profession (TBD) and Labor (TBD) After a hectic few years the promised OSHA ergonomics standard has been relegated to the back burner. Various sets of material were distributed, including a draft proposed standard along with extensive appendices. Much has been said and written regarding the scientific basis, the economic implications and the legal ramifications of the standard. Many other attempts have also been made to produce material that represents the general opinion of the profession, including ANSI Z365, the State of California and British Columbia. The issue of standards will not go away and it is probably appropriate at this time to step back and discuss some philosophical issues associated with standards. Operational concepts: * Ergonomics is broader in content and application than the prevention of acute and cumulative trauma disorders and so a standard should adopt a more specific title such as a Musculo Skeletal Disorder Prevention Standard. * Programmatic Guidelines should describe the general content of ergonomics activity such as Job Analysis, Hazard (or Error) Reduction, Training, Medical (or Risk) Management, Record Keeping and Reporting. * Performance Requirements should refer to specific outcome measures such as injury / illness incidence and severity, productivity, product quality and indications of motivation such as attendance. * Design Specifications should take the form of quantitative statements regarding systems, products, processes and environments. * Standards should include probabilistic statements such as target population selection and training characteristics and levels (percentiles) of accommodation, risk or protection. * Physical (mental) work should be optimized, not minimized. * Classical "reductionist" science in this area will always require interpolation or extrapolation before being of value in standards With these concepts in mind, each of the panelists will address the following questions: 1. Is there sufficient need for a standard because of the level of outcomes (such as occupationally induced cumulative trauma)? 2. Is there sufficient scientific evidence relating "doses" and responses to form the basis of a standard? 3. Is our profession being fairly criticized because of our failure to reach agreement on standards? 4. Should a standard take the form of programmatic guidelines, performance requirements or design specifications? 5. What levels of accommodation / protection are appropriate for work standards and to what extent should standards assume certain levels of population selection and training? 6. Following the analogy of the recent changes in vehicular speed limits, should the issue of standards be left to the individual states? 7. How can consensus be achieved?”

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“ ... there are no simple 'right' answers for most web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need--carefully thought out, well executed, and tested. ”

-- Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think, p. 136

 
 

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Read the fascinating history of Wearable Computing, told by its father, Steve Mann

Read Steve's chapter !

 
 

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