040-0715/01 – Ergonomics (EG)
| 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 | Compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | English |
| Year of introduction | 2022/2023 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Perceive ergonomics as a system that solves the work activity of the employee in a specific workplace and considers the study of the interrelationships between the various subsystems - man, machine and work environment which mutually interact and complement each other. Define the goal of ergonomics as optimizing the interaction of individual subsystems, in order to create the most suitable working conditions for employees (reducing the risk of accidents (work injury) or work-related diseases), influencing its performance, team and quality of work.
Explain application of Ergonomics into practice from the point of view process approach and connection with Deming (PDCA) cycle. Introduce ergonomics as a multidisciplinary discipline, which includes in addition to the physical part (unsuitable working position, transport of loads, lighting, etc.) also cognitive (mental) ergonomics (characteristics, skills, stress, mental stress, etc.) and organizational ergonomics (social climate, shift work - night work, tasks of managers).
Teaching methods
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Summary
Defining ergonomics as a factor in optimizing human activity. Basic and special areas of ergonomics. Criteria and parameters for ergonomic evaluation of work systems, examples of applying knowledge in usual working positions, during manual handling of loads, computer work, application of ergonomic knowledge for psychological demands on job positions, and determination of the degree of psychological 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
Credit – attandance on practices and prepare semestral thesis.
E-learning
Other requirements
No other 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 areas of application
5. Cognitive ergonomics, its specifics, and areas of application
6. Organizational ergonomics, macroergonomics, its specifics, and areas of application
7. Methods and techniques of ergonomics, analysis, and areas of their application
8. Scope and principles of applications in physical ergonomics
9. Scope and principles of applications in cognitive (psychological) ergonomics
10. Scope and principles of applications in organizational ergonomics and macroergonomics
11. Scope and principles for evaluating human reliability in work systems
12. Principles of comprehensive evaluations of professions, professionograms
13. Principles of designing workplaces, work systems, work organization
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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