title: Designing a curriculum for healthy work: reflections on the United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers-General Motors Ergonomics Pilot Project.
abstract: An ambitious ergonomics pilot project sponsored by UAW-GM sought to bypass traditional "top-down" methods of ergonomics training in favor of an in-house "bottom-up" approach that empowered workers to implement basic ergonomic improvements in their own work areas. UAW and GM eventually used the program as the model for a corporate-wide ergonomics program that they later implemented.
authors.affiliation: Labor Education Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Schurman
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Silverstein
authors.forename: S E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Richards
mesh_terms: D000062:Accidents, Occupational / Q000517:prevention & control; D001336:Automobiles; D003479:Curriculum; D006804:Ergonomics; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007750:Labor Unions; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D016272:Occupational Health; D016134:Organizational Policy; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012307:Risk Factors