STANDARDS

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STANDARDS SOCIAL ASPECTS
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Outline

• ISO standards
• ISO/TC 159
• Training
• Health information
• Evaluating ergonomic interventions

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Developing ISO Standards

• 250 technical committees
• Technical Committee No. 159
• (ISO/TC 159)Ergonomics advisory committee
• Advises in
• General ergonomics principles
• Anthropometry biomechanics
• Ergonomics of human-system interaction
• Ergonomics of the physical environment

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ISO/TC 159

• Enhance health, safety well-being of users
  (and) meet overall performance
• Prepare standards in the field of ergonomics
  ..for ergonomics efficient products under the
  conditions of free trade
• Improve usability of products
• Deliver a consistent set of ergonomics
  requirements as a reliable basis for world-wide
  machine design.

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Training, Experience Skill Development (1)

• Training Principles
• Workplace training is ongoing
• Choose appropriate training method for required
  outcome
• e.g. physical skill training V knowledge training
• Utilise principles of adult learning
• Make training relevant
• Build on previous knowledge/experience
• Cater for different learning styles
• Cater for different cultural and language
  backgrounds

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Training, Experience Skill Development (2)

• Conduct a training needs analysis prior to
  training, and address
• Organisational requirements
• What training, where, when
• Task/job requirements
• Skills/abilities required to perform task/job
• Personal requirements
• Determine training needs of individual trainees.

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Training, Experience Skill Development (3)

• Types of training
• Knowledge based
• On-the-job
• Simulator
• Part-task
• Team-based
• Refresher
• Others?
• why how

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Health Information (1)

• Duty of Care
• Employers have responsibility duty of care for
  employees
• Identify all relevant hazards
• Assess the risk
• Develop risk control strategy
• Monitor effectiveness

ASCC
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Health Information (2) Risk Management
BP
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Health Information (3)

• Supervision Records
• Measuring Health Illness
• Health surveillance
• Ergonomics surveillance
• Injury statistics
• Near miss reports
• Hazard reports

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Measuring the Impact of Ergonomics (1)

• PPIs
• Commitment
• Documentation
• Purchasing
• Safe Working systems
• Identify, report correct
• Monitor, record review
• Skills competency standards

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Measuring the Impact of Ergonomics (2)

• NPIs
• Injury/illness rates
• Programme evaluation
• Strategic planning/organisational goals
• KPIs
• Programme audits
• Accident/incident investigation
• Cost-benefit models
• e/ee work hour/year
• Salary/wages cost/hour worked
• e/ee turnover training costs
• Productivity product/service quality loss
• Cost of intervention implementation

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Summary

• ISO standards
• ISO/TC 159
• Training
• Health information
• Evaluating ergonomic interventions