Integrating ergonomics in design processes: a case study within an engineering consultancy firm.
This paper reports on a case study within an engineering consultancy firm, where engineering designers and ergonomists were working together on the design of a new hospital sterile processing plant. The objective of the paper is to gain a better understanding of the premises for integrating ergonomics into engineering design processes and how different factors either promote or limit the integration. Based on a grounded theory approach a model illustrating these factors is developed and different hypotheses about how these factors either promote and/or limit the integration of ergonomics into design processes is presented along with the model.
Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. lbjso@man.dtu.dk
Lene Bjerg
LB
Sørensen
Ole
O
Broberg
D004738:Engineering; D006804:Ergonomics; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013242:Sterilization