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Ergonomics Role in Sustainable Development: A Review Article for Updates the Recent Knowledge

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Having a greater role in the social and environmental sustainability has caused many challenges to addressing the paradigm of sustainable development in developing countries. The aim of this study is to update the uses and commons of the ergonomics with the sustainable development paradigm. In this review study, to find relevant literatures the “Ergonomics”, “Human Factors”, “Sustainable Development, and Sustainability” were searched as core keywords. The search was limited since 2000 to 2017. Finally, 13 articles were selected. The results indicated a dramatic increase in the number of articles in ergonomics and sustainable development field recently. These results indicate the role of micro-ergonomic interventions in sustainability that can take place in various economic, social or environmental domains. Reducing occupational accidents and illnesses and increasing the health of employees is related to aspects of social sustainability and leads to social sustainability in people's work life. Ergonomics attention to design/redesign of systems including production subsystem, communications, human resources and other support subsystems, such as health and well-being, and the system's life cycle consideration can be a move towards the sustainability.

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Sohrabi, M.S. (2021). Ergonomics Role in Sustainable Development: A Review Article for Updates the Recent Knowledge. In: Black, N.L., Neumann, W.P., Noy, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021). IEA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 220. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74605-6_75

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