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Occupational Health 2018 Journal of Nursing and Health Studies
ISSN: 2574-2825 Page 44
May 28-29, 2018
London, UK
4th Edition of International Conference on
Occupational Health and
Safety
Increasing consumption speed in our globalized world has
put businesses into a fierce competitive environment. With
increasingly competitive pace, businesses have been reluctant
to offer employees an ergonomic work environment to get more
production and service output. Workers who are expected to
produce and service increasing amount of output have begun to
work in bad ergonomic environments increasingly. Importance
of ergonomics has been noticed rapidly as ergonomically
unsuitable working conditions have led to a decline in the
productivity of employees. One of the most important study areas
of ergonomics is to investigate the risks that cause occupational
musculoskeletal system diseases (OMSD) and the development
of preventive measures for these conditions. The physical
and psychosocial ergonomic risks are quite influential in the
formation of OMSD. There are many physical and psychosocial
ergonomic risk assessment tools. However, there is no method
that merges these two different risk groups to assess them at
the same time. Physical ergonomic risk assessment methods
alone or psychosocial ergonomic risk assessment methods
alone do not provide sufficient information on hazard dimensions
of ergonomic risks. The purpose of this study is to propose a
combined ergonomic risk assessment method by weighting
outcomes of physical ergonomic risk assessment methods and
psychosocial ergonomic risk assessment methods with multi
criteria decision making methods and provide an integrated
evaluation.
Biography
Elif Güler is a Research Assistant at Celal Bayar University, Department of In-
dustrial Engineering andMaster of Science student at Dokuz Eylul University
(DEU), Department of Industrial Engineering (IE). Her research interests are
“Ergonomics, risk management and, multi-criteria decision making”.
Proposing an integrated method for ergonomic risk
assessment involving physical and psychosocial risks
Elif Guler1, 4, Seren Ozmehmet Tasan2 and Burcu Felekoglu3
1Manisa Celal Bayar University, Sehit Prof. Dr. Ilhan Varank Campus, Turkey
2Department of Industrial Engineering, Tınaztepe Campus, 35397 Izmir, Turkey
3Department of Industrial Engineering, Tınaztepe Campus, 35397 Izmir, Turkey
4Dokuz Eylul University, the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Izmir, Turkey
Elif Guler et al., J Nurs Health Stud 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C2-005