040-0155/01 – Ergonomics (E)
| Gurantor department | Department of Occupational and Process Safety | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | Mgr. Michaela Škerková, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Mgr. Michaela Škerková, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory type A |
| Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2020/2021 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Gaining knowledge about parameters and methods of ergonomic evaluation of existing work systems and for designing new ones. Integrating and summarizing knowledge in realizing ergonomic assessments.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Tutorials
Summary
Defining ergonomics as a factor for optimizing human activity. Basic and special areas of ergonomics. Criteria and parameters of ergonomic evaluation of working systems, examples of application of knowledge in common working positions, handling of loads, work with computer, application of ergonomic knowledge for mental demands on working positions and determination of the degree of mental stress.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Malý, S., Král, M., Hanáková, E. ABC Ergonomie. 1.vyd. Professional Publishing, 2010, 386 s. ISBN 9788 -7431- 027 - 0.
Kroemer et al: Ergonomics, Prentice-Hall Inc., UK, 2003, ISBN: 0–13-752478.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
-účast na cvičeních, projekt, kombinovaná zkouška
E-learning
Other requirements
No additional student requirements.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Introduction to the study of work ergonomics, international development and sources of knowledge
2. Analysis of ergonomics disciplines
3. Types of work systems and their specifics
4. Physical ergonomics, its specifics and applications
5. Cognitive ergonomics, its specifics and applications
6. Organizational ergonomics, macroergonomics, its specifics, applications
7. Methods and techniques of ergonomics, analysis and their use
8. The scope and principles of applications in physical ergonomics
9. Scope and principles of applications in cognitive (psychological) ergonomics
10. The scope and principles of application in organizational ergonomics and macroergonomics
11. Scope and principles of human reliability assessment in work systems
12. Principles of complex professions, professiograms
13. Principles of job design, work systems, work organization
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction