Incorrect ergonomics or its absence not only causes aches and pains (musculoskeletal disorders) but can also cause industrial disasters, including a nuclear accident. A scientific paper by VM Munipov (1992) emphasized that unless the ergonomics lessons are fully learned, a similar disaster like the Chernobyl...

The pandemic has introduced many new words in the minds of people, especially office-goers who started working from home; one of these words is ergonomics, the other being mental health. Both, ergonomics and mental health are some of the silent pandemic that have the potential...

Ergonomics is an art and science of helping to fit a job to the worker. Health problems occurs when a worker tries to fit to a job and work long hours. Example: A tall worker doing some job on a table for long hours can...

Ergonomics is making the work (job), the equipment and the workplace fit the worker. This enables the worker to perform the job in a way that avoids any harm due to the work, the workplace or the equipment. Often, wrongly, efforts are made to make...