Ergonomic risk

The application of ergonomic principles promotes the health and safety of operators but affects human performance, the level of productivity and overall professional satisfaction, with a consequent decrease in absenteeism as well as accidents and occupational diseases.

The ergonomic approach to the design and evaluation of workstations contributes to the control and achievement of the work goals set for that given workstation.
Ergonomics is a multidisciplinary science aimed at studying the functions and interaction between the following three elements that characterize a work system:

man: worker assigned to carry out a specific task, understood both in the physical sense (anthropometric characteristics, biomechanical aspects, etc.) and cognitive (induced mental load, social interactions, psychological factors as well as the set of mental processes, ranging from perception to action, passing, in order, through memory, decision and judgment);
machine: understood as the equipment, the tool, the tool used to manage information flows or to perform the assigned task;
environment: understood as the set of characteristics of the place where the work is carried out. These include the layout of the space, workstation or room used for carrying out the work activity, all the physical parameters that characterize them (presence of pollutants, temperature, relative humidity, ventilation, noise, lighting, etc.) as well as social and organizational.

The purpose of ergonomics is to improve system performance and overall worker satisfaction, while protecting their well-being, health and safety. (INAIL)