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September 20, 2006
Ergonomists are well armed to join Washington's "war on terror." One expert outlines ways they can join the fight in the third part in a series on ergonomics and counterterrorism.
September 15, 2006
NIOSH ergonomists recently evaluated order pickers at a building supplies warehouse and their environment to assess the risk of back and repetitive motion injuries. The news was good - for the present.
September 12, 2006
Near the fifth anniversary of 9/11, a counterterrorism and human factors expert talks about measures that could foil attacks. Second in series on terrorism from a human factors perspective.
September 11, 2006
September 7, 2006
Some systems pose a higher risk of human error than others. Several experts offer views on the issue and on reforms that could reduce errors and their worst effects.
September 6, 2006
An ergonomics pioneer who wasn't an ergonomist, industrial designer William Stumpf died at 70 on August 30.
September 4, 2006
Pharmacogenetics is still controversial, but it showing promise as a more effective and less costly way to treat disease with drugs than traditional methods.
September 1, 2006
There are few places where ergonomic principles are more crucial than in man-machine interfaces, and three recent product releases hint at where the interface industry is headed.
August 30, 2006
The question is whether the most recent aviation accident, the crash of a Comair jet in Kentucky on August 27, will prompt the authorities to put more energy into anticipating and preventing human error.