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- The International Ergonomics Association's Technical Committee on 'Human Factors and Sustainable Development' examines the relationship between sustainability and ergonomics in modern work systems.
- Discussions focus on whether sustainability should be integrated as a fundamental approach within the ergonomics discipline.
- The paper proposes principles for designing and improving ergonomics practices to align with sustainability goals.
Article Abstract
Unlabelled: The International Ergonomics Association Technical Committee 'Human Factors and Sustainable Development' was established to contribute to a broad discourse about opportunities and risks resulting from current societal 'mega-trends' and their impacts on the interactions among humans and other elements of a system, e.g. in work systems. This paper focuses on the underlying key issues: how do the sustainability paradigm and human factors/ergonomics interplay and interact, and is sustainability necessary as a new approach for our discipline? Based on a discussion of the sustainability concept, some general principles for designing new and enhancing existent approaches of human factors and ergonomics regarding their orientation towards sustainability are proposed.
Practitioner Summary: The increasing profile of sustainability on the international stage presents new opportunities for human factors/ergonomics. Positioning of the sustainability paradigm within human factors/ergonomics is discussed. Approaches to incorporating sustainability in the design of work systems are considered.
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