Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Do we need sustainability as a new approach in human factors and ergonomics?

Notes: Sumario: 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.Related records: En: Ergonomics : the international journal of research and practice in human factors and ergonomics. - Oxon [United Kingdom] : Taylor & Francis, 2010- = ISSN 0014-0139. - 04/03/2013 Volumen 56 Número 3 - marzo 2013 , p. 348-356Other categories: 875

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