Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
Role of ergonomics in the transfer of technology to industrially developing countries
Luleå University of Technology.
2000 (English)In: Ergonomics, ISSN 0014-0139, E-ISSN 1366-5847, Vol. 43, no 7, p. 903-907Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Technological development has contributed to economic growth and social progress as well as a reduction of many sources of occupational accidents, injuries and stresses. However, advanced technology has also brought new sources of work stress and injuries. Industrially developing countries (IDC) have tended to try to achieve economic growth and development by importing technology designed for IDC. However, because of several complex technical, cultural and socio-economic factors, this policy has not been always successful. Inappropriate technology transfer has led to many work environment and productivity problems. Consideration of ergonomics in the choice and utilization of the transferred technology can help to create a good fit between technology, technology users and the operating environment. Application of ergonomics is, however, not widely spread in most IDC. Ergonomics input will create the appropriate working environment in which people are safe and motivated to participate and can better utilize company resources for increasing system productivity, reliability and availability.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2000. Vol. 43, no 7, p. 903-907
National Category
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Research subject
Industrial Work Environment
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-4624DOI: 10.1080/001401300409099ISI: 000088268400007PubMedID: 10929825Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-0033624502Local ID: 299912a0-d488-11db-8550-000ea68e967bOAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-4624DiVA, id: diva2:977498
Note

Validerad; 2000; 20070317 (ysko)

Available from: 2016-09-29 Created: 2016-09-29 Last updated: 2022-01-13Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textPubMedScopus

Authority records

Shahnavaz, Houshang

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Shahnavaz, Houshang
By organisation
Luleå University of Technology
In the same journal
Ergonomics
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
pubmed
urn-nbn
Total: 25 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf