Ergonomics Makes Life Comfortable

Ergonomics can be called as a form of ecology.Physical Ergonomics deals with the physical stress
But this relates the interaction of human with thethat gives pain to the body. This may be due to
non-living environment. To make life easier,the same sitting posture over long hours, lifting of
comfortable and healthy ergonomics is followed.weights, and other such physical activity. This can
International Ergonomics Association is solely putbe overcome by providing proper chairs designed
forth for this purpose.on the advice of medical experts, carriages to lift
The difficulty in doing work is due to thethe weight and so on.
discomfort in the workplace that differs from oneCognitive Ergonomics:
profession to the other. Based on the type ofThis deals with the mental stress and tension
work, workers face various degrees ofrelated to the work other than the physical
discomfort and health related issues. The study ofentities. This may be due to the continuous
Ergonomics deals with such issues and put forthhuman-computer interaction which causes stress
ways to overcome those.to the eyes and to the brain, work pressure from
The software work these days requires thethe high officials, stress on completing huge
worker to be seated in a place for continuallyamount of work in short time. This could be
more than 8 hours. This may create stress in theovercome only by relaxing our body and mind.
spinal cord and lead to hip pain and many spinalYogas and exercises in the mornings will also do
cord related problems. As a consequence, thegood.
concentration and interest in the work mayOrganizational Ergonomics:
degrade. To overcome these, all possibleThis is related with the organization on whole. Any
measures have to be analyzed, by which we candifficulty faced by the individual with the group of
improve the sitting posture to a comfortablepeople in the organization, or the organization as
form to the worker.such comes under organizational ergonomics. This
Some types of the Ergonomics that is prevalentcould be overcome only by strengthening the
in the work place are as follows:team building and group participation of the
Physical Ergonomics:individuals.