Ergonomics project work
This is a fully searchable list of ergonomics projects , occupations and products examined by Mark Dohrmann and Partners Pty Ltd, Australian consulting engineers and ergonomists.
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Abattoirs: slaughtering, boning
Access issues for wheelchair users
Accident investigation methodology
Accountants' offices
Agricultural equipment and its use
Air traffic controller work
Aircraft cabin humidity in flight
Aircraft refuelling (jets and smaller)
Airport control tower interiors
Alternative duties: design of manuals
Alternative duties: selection, analysis, management
Alumina production
Aluminium and ferrous casting
Aluminium manufacture
Aluminium smelting
Ambulance interiors
Ammunition manufacture
Anaesthetists' work
Architects: working at drawing boards
Asphalt manufacture and handling
Assaults on hospital staff
Assembly of heavy-duty earth moving equipment
Assisting nursing mothers (nurses' backs)
Automotive manufacture and assembly
Automotive wheel manufacture (including aluminium casting)
Automotive wiring harnesses: manufacture
Bacon and ham manufacture
Baggage handling (airports; aircraft holds)
Bagging of chemicals
Bakeries
Bank interiors - design
Bank security
Bankcard etc verification routines
Banknote printing and chequeing
Banks: safety deposit vaults and boxes, and access to them
Barcoding equipment
Barristers' chambers
Bathing patients (nursing homes, hospitals)
Beer kegs: handling and transporting them
Bicycle paths
Biological laboratories
Biscuit manufacture and packing
Blinds and curtains: selection and applications
Boardrooms: seating, layout
Boilers
Boning of beef and mutton
Bottle manufacture
Brake presses
Bread delivery
Brewing of beer
Brick firing and stacking
Brick kilns
Bricklaying and building
Buffers and polishing equipment
Bulldozers
Bus seats
By-laws offices work
Cabin humidity in flight
Cable jointing
Can end manufacture and packing
Car seat design and manufacture
Caravan parks
Caring for the elderly
Carparks: external lighting
Carpets: evaluation of rolling resistance
Cash handling (lifting, transport)
Cash registers
Cashier workstations
Central linen services (laundry)
Ceramic tiles and their properties
Chair lifts and their problems
Chairs for very tall people
Chairs in hospital waiting rooms
Charge card manufacture
Cheese processing
Chefs' work
Cheque proofing operations
Child care centres
Chippers (timber)
Chocolate enrobing
Chocolate manufacture
Claims management (Workers Compensation)
Cleaning of offices
Clothing manufacture
Coal mining
Coin collection (parking meters)
Coin handling and transfer
Cold storage equipment and the working environment
Collating (commercial scale)
Colour matching (textiles)
Commercial catering
Commercial cleaning
Commercial kitchens - design, fitout
Commercial dishwashers
Computer manufacture and assembly
Concrete blocks used in construction (handling)
Confectionery packing
Console design (various)
Control of construction noise
Crane cabin design
Crash testing of vehicles
Credit card manufacturing and encoding
Cricket pitch rollers - use
Customer service training
Dance floors and their properties
Dangerous Goods assessments
Data entry - keyboarding
Dealing with violence
Defibrillation equipment (handling)
Delicatessen work: meat slicing, etc
Dentists and their work
Design of rehabilitation equipment
Designing for disabled users
Desks: design
Directory assistance work (telephone services)
Disabled workers: modification of equipment to suit
Dishwashing (commercial)
Diving boards and their properties
Dogs biting postmen
Drilling - offshore oil and gas
Dry ice: handling
Drycleaning work
Dumpmasters and rubbish disposal
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Egg sorting and grading
Electrical components and their assembly
Electromagnetic screen disturbances in offices
Elevated work platforms
Emergency Lighting
Emergency Services Rooms - design, layout
Engine assembly
Escalators
Excavating into footpaths
Executive seating - selection
Explosives manufacture
Exterior car parks and lighting them
Felling trees
Fettling (aluminium, ferrous)
Filing cabinets and their use
Financial services offices
Firefighting
Fish processing
Fitness centre equipment, gymnasiums, etc
Flight attendant uniforms
Flight attendants and their work
Floor polishing, and management of machinery
Flying a helicopter
Food manufacture and packing
Footpath construction
Footpath sweeping machines
Footpaths: slips and falls
Forklift trucks and their use
Foundry work
Freezer warehouses
Front end loaders: manufacture
Fruiterers' shops: work performed
Fuel tankers: loading, driving them
Furniture manufacture
Garage doors (opening/closing)
Garbage compactor vehicles: risk assessments
Gas and oil platforms (offshore)
Gas cylinders, and handling problems
Gates in school yards
Giving birth: strain problems for nurses
Glass manufacture
Glazing inside buildings
Glazing of doors
Go-karting
Grain silos on farms: access, ladders, etc
Graphic designers' workstations
Greasing machinery (including pumping)
Guarding of machines (training, advice)
Guarding of presses
Guillotines (printing, metal)
Gymnasium equipment
Hand-held grinders
Hand-held scanners
Hand-held ticket issuing machines, design and use
Handling bricks
Handling fruit
Handling large drums
Handling patients
Handling rubbish bins manually
Handling skins and hides
Handling welding materials
Hardwood and softwood harvesting
Harnesses (and safe restraint)
Headsets for telephonists
Helicopters - pilot's flying position
Hides - processing
High rise palletising
Highrise elevators, and their maintenance
Home care work
Hops processing
Horse-jumping
Hospital beds
Hospital cleaning
Hospital design (new)
Hospital emergency departments
Hospital inpatient reception areas
Hospital kitchens and their layout
Hospital maintenance
Hospital safety officers: training
Hospital trolleys
Hot working conditions
Hotels and behaviour therein
Hotels: housemaids' work
House construction
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Icy conditions and safety footwear
Indoor cricket and protection
Induction training
Industrial hand trucks: design
Inertia reel seatbelt manufacture
Infant welfare work
Injection moulding
Instrument technician's work in hospitals
Investigation of accidents (legal cases)
Jack-hammering underground
Jackhammers and vibration control
Job rotation schemes
Joinery work
Journalists' desks and work areas
Kerb design and risks
Keyboard designs
Kindergartens, and managing them
Kitchen design
Laboratory safety
Ladders: design, selection and use
Large green "wheely" bins
Lathes, and various tasks on them
Laundry work (hospitals and others)
Lawyers' offices - design and layout
Laying explosives
Legal and commercial aspects of consulting (lectures)
Legal secretaries and their workstations
Librarians' work
Libraries (reception counters)
Libraries: backroom work: handling, layout
Libraries: design of book return systems
Light fittings (selection)
Lighting design
Lighting design: offices
Lighting in warehouses
Loading baggage into aircraft
Loading semi-trailers
Loading ships
Loads, and tying them down (trucks, etc)
Local government work generally
Locomotive cabin interiors
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Machine guarding: selection, maintenance
Machine gunning: noise control
Mail sorting frame (design)
Mail sorting work
Maintenance and service workers
Maintenance of road signs
Maintenance procedures generally
Making textiles
Managing violence at work
Manufacture and handling of explosives
Manufacture of timber wall frames
Meat rendering
Medical centres: design of reception areas, etc
Medical operating theatres
Medical records departments
Metal can ends: manufacture and packing
Metal presses
Migraine problems and their resolution
Milk carton sealing and opening
Milk crates and their transport
Milk deliveries, and milk trucks
Mining work
Mobile libraries
Mobile phones: radiation assessments
Mooring of ships
Motor mechanics' work
Motor vehicle assembly
Motorcycles: selecting the right machine for the job
Moulding and injection of plastic
Mounting telegraph poles
Mowing large areas of lawn
Neck pain in desk-bound executives
News desk design (television broadcasting)
Night work
Nightclubs: flooring, lighting
Noise from grinders
Non-slip properties of flooring
Nurses' backs: injury prevention
Nurses' workstations
Nursing
Nursing homes
Off-shore oil platforms
Office accommodation guidelines
Office chairs (selection)
Office chairs, evaluation
Office chairs: design
Office cleaning
Office ergonomics
Office layout
Office work from home (remotely)
Offset printing
Outpatients' departments: design
Oxy-resuscitation equipment
Oysters: opening them
Packing and wrapping meat
Packing of bottled and canned beer
Painting road markings on roads
Pallets and their movements
Panel beating (vehicles)
Pantyhose: manufacture, etc
Paper collection procedures (recycling)
Paper manufacture: handling large rolls
Parking officers' work
Parking tickets: ticket issuing machinery
Passenger facilities inside buses
Pastry cooks: preparation of pastry
Pathology laboratories
Pathology work
Paths on beaches (access)
Paving materials suitable for horses
Petrol stations
Petrol tanker deliveries
Pharmaceuticals: manufacture and packing
Photocopying
Pie-making
Pillow cases and sheets: cutting and packing them
Pipe bending
Pit lids and their management
Pits and sewers: entry
Plant regulations - compliance studies
Plastic extrusion machinery and work
Play equipment for children
Playgrounds: comprehensive risk assessments
Pool attendants and their work
Portable data terminals
Post Office counter work
Postal deliveries
Postal van interiors
Potato chip manufacture
Powered footpath sweepers
Printed circuitboard manufacture
Printing machinery (high speed)
Printing of multiple forms
Prison activities
Prisoner management/violence control
Process line ergonomics
Production of training videos
Properties of duck excrement
Pruning of pine trees
Pruning trees
Psychiatric nursing
Public parks and their maintenance
Public toilets, and cleaning them
Purchasing procedures with safety regulations considered
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RSI Prevention
Racecourse gambling facilities
Radiation: screens (measurement, evaluation)
Radiographers: handling lead weights
Railway station platforms
Railway train seats
Reception counters - design, assessment
Reducing slips in a soap factory
Refrigeration manufacture (commercial)
Refrigeration units and their assembly
Refuelling jet aircraft
Rehabilitation
Reinforcing mesh and moving it around
Retail environments: ladders, floors, counters
Return to work plans
Ribbed roofs and working on them
Roadside mechanical emergency services: vehicle design
Robot arc welding
Rotation of jobs: schedules, policy development
Rubbish collection
Rubbish removal from highrise flat chutes
Safety harnesses and similar restraints
Sawmills and work performed there
Scanning guns
School cleaners and their work
School principals and their safety responsibilities
Schools and colleges generally
Screen displays: quality
Screen ergonomics: software design
Screen flicker: analysis and resolution
Screen-based equipment policy and training manual (authorship)
Screen-based equipment selection
Sculleries, and work in them
Search and rescue operations - control room
Seatbelt manufacture and testing
Seating for parliamentarians
Seating in secondary school classrooms
Seating in trains
Seats for forklifts
Secretarial work generally
Security arrangements in all-night fast food shops
Selecting flooring for factories
Selection of weighing equipment
Services trolleys: pushing, steering
Sewing garments
Shearing sheds
Sheep shearing
Sheep skins - washing, tanning
Sheltered workshops
Shiftwork
Ship interiors
Shipping containers
Shoe manufacture
Shopping malls
Shot blasting
Sit/stand office stations - design
Sitting or standing at work? - work analysis
Slaughtering cattle and sheep
Slicing meat
Slips and falls generally
Smallgoods manufacture and handling
Socks: manufacture
Soldering
Solicitors' offices: layout
Space planning generally
Spinning yarn
Spray painting
Steel plate handling
Steps into buses
Sterilisation (hospitals)
Stock control and equipment used for this
Stove and oven manufacture
Strain prevention: training seminars
Street lighting
Street sweeping
Stretcher carrying
Stretchers: design
Sugar manufacture and packing
Sunlight penetration and its control
Supermarket entrances
Supply stores and their layout
Swaging machines
Swimming pools generally
Swimming pools: diving accidents
Swings and slides
Switchboard design and layout
Switchboard work
Tailgates on trucks
Tax office work
Telegraph poles, ladders
Telemarketing centres: design and fitout
Telephone betting: consoles for operators
Telephone headsets: noise control
Teller workstations (banks)
Tennis balls: manufacture and testing
Textile manufacture
Theatre orderlies and their work
Theatre set design and movement
Theatre technicians' work
Theatrical lighting and its adjustment
Tie manufacture
Tiles: slip resistance
Timber workshops
Tip trucks and their behaviour
Toboggans (hillsides)
Toilet manufacture, including firing
Tractors and bulldozers
Traffic light globe changing
Traffic signals and their control
Training facilities, and their design
Transferring patients from beds to wheelchairs
Tree roots and their effects on footpaths
Trolley design (hospital)
Trolleys on carpets: assessments
Trousers: securing them (belt design, etc)
Truck loading
Truck seating
Truck steps and their design
Trucks: manufacture and assembling
Tyre building
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Vacuum cleaners, including backpacks
Vacuum systems (buildings)
Varicose veins and their prevention (flight attendants)
Vegetable preparation (large volume)
Vehicle interiors
Vehicle maintenance workshops
Vehicle manufacture and assembly
Vehicle selection: seats, space for working in
Video productions: various safety themes
Warehouse design and layout
Warehousing generally
Waste transfer stations, and associated risks
Watch repair work
Water authorities - distribution work
Weights and measures inspectors' work
Welding rods and their bulk handling
Wharf work
Wheel changing - tractors, vehicles
Wheelbarrows
Wig manufacture
Windscreen wiper motor assembly
Wire drawing and extrusion
Wiring harnesses: manufacture
Wool pressing
Wool scouring
Wool testing - comprehensive
Work rooms in libraries
Workcover claims management
Working in pits
Working in very dry conditions
Workstations for professional punters
Wrapping machinery operation
Zip fasteners: sewing them into garments
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