Abstract
With future work systems becoming more interactive, dynamic, and flexible, occupational safety and health (OSH) calls for prospective assessments of hazards and risks to facilitate prevention through design. German river locks for inland waterways will be composed of standardised objects representing a high level of OSH. A research project aimed at conducting risk assessments of river locks of the future; early in their planning stage, with standardised objects and referring to different EU Directives addressing safety and health at work. About 150 work scenarios across operational states and variations in river lock standardisation have been compiled and supplemented for instructing risk assessments. They also conveyed design requirements for setting up dynamic virtual reality (VR) planning models in future contexts of use. Initial feedback about VR simulation use for scenario-based risk assessments is positive and a design review suggested minor adjustments before risk assessments can be conducted that should facilitate OSH improvements and templates for future assessments. The project motivates applications in similar contexts.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
EN ISO 6385 (2016) Ergonomic principles in the design of work systems. CEN, Brussels
Kantowitz BH, Sorkin RD (1983) Human factors: understanding people-system relationships. Wiley, New York
EN 614-2 (2008) Safety of machinery – Ergonomic design principles – Part 2: Interactions between the design of machinery and work tasks. CEN, Brussels
EU OSH Framework Directive 89/391/EEC of 12 June 1989 on the introduction of measures to encourage improvements in the safety and health of workers at work (with amendments 2008). Off J Eur Union L 183:1–8 (1989)
EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 17 May 2006 on machinery, and amending Directive 95/16/EC (recast). Off J Eur Union L 157:24–86 (2006)
EU Construction Directive 92/57/EEC on the implementation of minimum safety and health requirements at temporary or mobile construction sites. Off J Eur Union L 245:6–22 (1992)
BMVI (2014) Verkehrsinvestitionsbericht für das Berichtsjahr 2012. Deutscher Bundestag, Drucksache 18/580, 18 February 2014
BMVI (2016) Standardisierung von Binnenschiffsschleusenanalgen bis zu 10 m Fallhöhe (Erlass vom 20.12.2016 – WS 10/ 5212.4/1-2 (2576192)). BMVI, Bonn
Meister D (1999) Simulation and modelling. In: Wilson JR, Corlett EN (eds) Evaluation of human work. A practical ergonomics methodology. Taylor & Francis, London, pp 202–228
Miller C, Nickel P, Di Nocera F, Mulder B, Neerincx M, Parasuraman R, Whiteley I (2012) Human-machine interface. In: Hockey GRJ (ed) THESEUS cluster 2: psychology and human-machine systems – report. Indigo, Strasbourg, pp 22–38
Chapanis A, van Cott HP (1972) Human engineering tests and evaluations. In: van Cott HP, Kinkade RG (eds) Human engineering guide to equipment design. AIR, Washington, pp 701–728
Stanton N (1996) Simulators: a review of research and practice. In: Stanton N (ed) Human factors in nuclear safety. Taylor & Francis, London, pp 117–141
Nickel P, Lungfiel A (2018) Improving occupational safety and health (OSH) in human-system interaction (HSI) through applications in virtual environments. In: Duffy VG (ed) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10917. Springer, Cham, pp 1–12
Commission European (1996) Guidance on risk assessment at work. ECSC-EC-EAEC, Luxemburg
Merdian J (1995) Risikobeurteilung in Arbeitssystemen. Die BG 10:518–524
EN ISO 12100 (2010) Safety of machinery – general principles for design – risk assessment and risk reduction. CEN, Brussels
Główczyńska-Woelke K, Łyjak G, Gruber H, Vlková S, Nagy K, Schenk C, Šmerhovský Z (2010) Guide for risk assessment in small and medium enterprises. Verlag Technik & Information, Bochum
European Commission (2010) Non-binding guide to good practice for understanding and implementing Directive 92/57/EEC ‘Construction Sites’. Common, Frankfurt
International Commission for the Study of Locks (1996) Final report of the international commission for the study of locks. PIANC, Brussels
Dutch Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management (2000) Design of locks (Report by the Civil Engineering Division). Bouwdienst Rijkswaterstaat, Utrecht
Nickel P, Kergel R, Wachholz T, Pröger E, Lungfiel A (2015) Setting-up a virtual reality simulation for improving OSH in standardisation of river locks. In: Proceedings of the 8th international conference on the safety of industrial automated systems (SIAS 2015). DGUV, Berlin, pp 223–228
Chun CK, Li H, Skitmore RM (2012) The use of virtual prototyping for hazard identification in the early design stage. Constr Innov 12(1):29–42
Zhou W, Whyte J, Sacks R (2012) Construction safety and digital design: a review. Autom Constr 22:102–111
Pröger E, Nickel P, Lungfiel A (2015) Risikobeurteilung nach Maschinenrichtlinie an einer virtuellen Neckarschleuse. Der Ing 54(2):9–13
EN IEC 61160 (2005) Design review. CEN, Brussels
Wickens CD, Hollands JG, Banbury S, Parasuraman R (2013) Engineering psychology and human performance. Pearson, Upper Saddle River
Nickel P, Nachreiner F (2010) Evaluation arbeitspsychologischer Interventionsmaßnahmen. In: Kleinbeck U, Schmidt K (eds) Arbeitspsychologie (Enzyklopädie der Psychologie, D, III, 1). Hogrefe, Göttingen, pp 1003–1038
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Nickel, P., Janning, M., Wachholz, T., Pröger, E. (2019). Shaping Future Work Systems by OSH Risk Assessments Early On. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 819. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96089-0_27
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96089-0_27
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-96088-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-96089-0
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and RoboticsIntelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)