Workplace dimension adaptation to worker as one of tools for increasing human work effectiveness.(Report)

1. INTRODUCTION

Adaptation of workplace dimensions to individual workers provides an opportunity to increase their work effectiveness. Programs available for applying this in the Slovak Republic don't respect specific data of employee population and Slovak legislation. This was the reason why we developed a method enabling to derive expected individual dimensions of workplace for the individual worker on the base of his anthropometric parameters.

2. THE METHOD DESCRIPTION

Expected workplace dimensions for individuals are derived from their anthropometric dimensions by simply mathematical procedures. Anthropometric dimensions used are defined as a direct distance of two anthropometric points (x<->y) or a distances between some of anthropometric points from some of reference planes (tab.1). Next methodical material used is standard ISO 11226:2000.

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Explanatory notes to anthropometric points and plains: "b"-basis; "bs"--basis sedens; "ges"--anthropometric point over patella upper edge in the direction of skin projection prolonged front edge of tibia; "fe"--point femorale; "a"--point acromion; "ol"--point olecranon; "pop" point popliteale.

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We derived data for two strategies of expected parameters of workplaces adjustment parameters (Fig.2): …