Integration of human factors principles in LARG organizations--a conceptual model.
Nowadays many companies are undergoing organizational transformations in order to meet the changing market demands. Thus, in order to become more competitive, supply chains (SC) are adopting new management paradigms to improve SC performance: lean, agile, resilient and green (LARG paradigms). The implementation of new production paradigms demands particular care with the issues related with Human Factors to avoid health and safety problems to workers and losses to companies. Thus, the successful introduction of these new production paradigms depends among others on a Human Factors oriented approach. This work presents a conceptual framework that allows integrating ergonomic and safety design principles during the different implementation phases of lean, agile, resilient and green practices.
Departamento Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Caparica, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
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D006804:Ergonomics; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D017751:Safety Management; D017749:Total Quality Management