| The science of understanding humans and their | | | | – furniture and machineries – could end up |
| interaction with other elements in a system is | | | | creating health hazards for the employees. Most |
| called Ergonomics. The study helps in building | | | | of the employees could end up complaining about |
| theories that further builds methods and designs in | | | | back aches and neck pains, which could gradually |
| order to optimise the performance of an overall | | | | lead to greater diseases, like arthritis, paralysis, |
| system. Though ergonomics has three separate | | | | etc. The diseases rising from problems of |
| domains, as classified by the International | | | | non-ergonomically designed furniture are often |
| Ergonomics Association (IEA) - physical | | | | termed as musculoskeletal disorders. |
| ergonomics (anatomical characteristics and their | | | | If a majority of the employees are calling in sick |
| co-ordination with a process), cognitive | | | | due to similar reasons like pain, muscle problems, |
| ergonomics (psychological characteristics) and | | | | chronic aching, etc, then ergonomics should help |
| organisational ergonomics (organisation | | | | you to analyse the reasons and find out if |
| environment, policies, etc) – what is mostly | | | | something is wrong with the designs of your |
| discussed in the study of ergonomics is physical | | | | furniture, sitting arrangements, machineries, etc, |
| ergonomics. | | | | and take corrective measures accordingly. |
| If not designed ergonomically, the office set up | | | | |