Ergonomic modelling parameters and the influence of ergonomics on planning workplaces
¹Udmurt State University, Institute of Economics and Management, Universitetskaya street 1, bld. 4, RU426034 Izhevsk, Russia
²Riga Stradins University, Faculty of European Studies, Dzirciema street 16, LV 1007 Riga, Latvia
*Correspondence: maksim.dan.gen@gmail.com
Abstract:
Modern economic research divides all economics into structural levels: mega-economics, macroeconomics, meso-economics, micro-economics, and nano-economics. From the point of such traditional divisions, the research is topical in the primary economic structure of society – nano-economics – and thanks to this work operations can be subdivided into workplaces in the form of transformation processes. The aim of the research is to develop ergonomic modelling parameters and to discover the influence of ergonomics on the planning of workplaces based on a case study. The research involved a study of workplace ergonomic planning methods and principles. Solutions for a series of problems which are related to the improvement of workplace ergonomics may be discovered in the following ways: improving work organisation in every workplace by using work process-related micro-elemental methods and a determination of work expenditure, the levels of physical strenuousness involved in the work, the complexity of the work, and the social importance of the workplace. These parameters will allow the workplace quantity characteristics to be discovered, such as in terms of a generalised parameter which conforms to the requirements which describe a workplace, and in terms of operational management via the condition of workplaces and the salary systems being utilised. The research provides a case study in which ergonomic modelling parameters are developed and concrete workplace interventions are introduced.
Key words:
case study, human factors, intervention, work, workplace