Height found to be significant discomfort factor in overhead work

New study suggests experience offers some protection where lifting is concerns, and offers several explanations.

The ergonomics of the world of children is largely neglected. Two human factors experts explored it, and have written a book about what they found.

I'm sitting on an airplane, beginning a long week of business travel across the United States. Over the next month, I'll log over 13,000 air miles, spending time in four different countries on two continents. And rather than excitement at my great fortune to be able to travel such distances and visit interesting people and places along the way, I instead feel a sense of impending dread.

The electronics industry is introducing a new line

Indian researcher provides a look at ergonomics factors associated with manual agricultural technology

A Nordic-style questionnaire on upper limb issues was useful in two groups with very different job physical demands

How big an issue is the graying workforce for employers? Some recent research suggests it could be a more seamless transition than some of the rhetoric suggests.

A change of leadership marks the recent acquisition by Dane Technologies Inc in the United States of Swiss wheelchair-maker LEVO AG.