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Adapting work sites for people with disabilities: Ideas from Sweden
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Cabins of earth moving machines - ergonomic aspects Foundation for Occupational Health in the Building Trade (PO Box 8114, 1005 AC Amsterdam) Netherlands Institute for Preventative Health Care, TNO Leiden
This booklet is primarily based on the recommendations of surveys carried out in the UK on tower cranes and mobile cranes and amalgamated with data collected from surveys on earth moving plant employed on construction projects in Holland. The report provides an analysis of the ergonomics spectrum associated with the cabin workplace. It can be used as a 'checklist' by designers and includes data and features for cabins which are desired to ensure that the skilled operators of such mechanical plant can carry out their tasks efficiently in a safe workplace and healthy cabin environment. The content of this document provides a catalogue of the common types of mechanical plant used in the civil engineering and construction industry throughout the world for earthmoving and construction tasks. It briefly discusses cabin features such as access and maintenance, vision, location and types of controllers, cabin dimensions, layout, seating, information presentation, lighting, noise, vibration, shock, climate and ventilation. Illustrations are used to a good effect. The information contained in this report would be most appreciated by engineers, designers, ergonomists, undergraduates and researchers. The information would also be of value to the organisers/instructors of training courses for plant operatives. The data provide guidance for the design and layout of cabins on new items of plant; they also indicate how existing cabin designs may possibly be modified to improve the safe use of such equipment together with operator comfort and improved operational performances. T.G. White
The Polytechnic of Wales
Sweden, in co-operation with the World Rehabilitation Fund, New York, USA, pp 260, SEK 45.00.
The design of work environment determines whether an impairment will result in a vocational handicap. Sometimes only small adaptations in combination with a tittte imagination can work wonders. This is the central message of this publication. The book was originally published in Swedish in 1981 and has recently been translated into English as No 20 in the World Rehabilitation Fund's Monograph series. It inchides descriptions of various kinds of disabiiitieS, examples of adapted work sites as well as different types of vocational aids. It also contains information on laws and regulations and advice on where to turn for assistance. Copies in English can be ordered from the Swedish Institute for the Handicapped, Box 303, S-161 26 Bromma, Sweden. The English edition is also available at the World Rehabilitation Fund, 400 East 34th Street, New York, NY 10O16, USA. Z. Novak
Books received Designing for human-computer oommunioations Sime and Coombs Academic Press lnc (London) Ltd, pp 338 + x, £29.
Human performance engineering Robert 14/. Bailey Prentice Hall International, pp 656 ÷ xxiii, £34.20.
Human factors: Understandingpeople-system relatiomhips 8.1-1. Kantowitz and R.D. Sorkin pp 699 + xii, £31.85.
Adapting work sites for people with disabilities: Ideas from Sweden
Ergonomics of workstation design
Editors: G. Elmfeldt,'C. Wise, H. Bergsten and A. O/non The Swedish Institute for the Handicapped, Bromma,
T. O. Kvalseth Butterworths, pp 260 + x, £28.00.
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AppliedEqlormmics December 1983
Cabins of earth moving machines - ergonomic aspects Foundation for Occupational Health in the Building Trade (PO Box 8114, 1005 AC Amsterdam) Netherlands Institute for Preventative Health Care, TNO Leiden
This booklet is primarily based on the recommendations of surveys carried out in the UK on tower cranes and mobile cranes and amalgamated with data collected from surveys on earth moving plant employed on construction projects in Holland. The report provides an analysis of the ergonomics spectrum associated with the cabin workplace. It can be used as a 'checklist' by designers and includes data and features for cabins which are desired to ensure that the skilled operators of such mechanical plant can carry out their tasks efficiently in a safe workplace and healthy cabin environment. The content of this document provides a catalogue of the common types of mechanical plant used in the civil engineering and construction industry throughout the world for earthmoving and construction tasks. It briefly discusses cabin features such as access and maintenance, vision, location and types of controllers, cabin dimensions, layout, seating, information presentation, lighting, noise, vibration, shock, climate and ventilation. Illustrations are used to a good effect. The information contained in this report would be most appreciated by engineers, designers, ergonomists, undergraduates and researchers. The information would also be of value to the organisers/instructors of training courses for plant operatives. The data provide guidance for the design and layout of cabins on new items of plant; they also indicate how existing cabin designs may possibly be modified to improve the safe use of such equipment together with operator comfort and improved operational performances. T.G. White
The Polytechnic of Wales
Sweden, in co-operation with the World Rehabilitation Fund, New York, USA, pp 260, SEK 45.00.
The design of work environment determines whether an impairment will result in a vocational handicap. Sometimes only small adaptations in combination with a tittte imagination can work wonders. This is the central message of this publication. The book was originally published in Swedish in 1981 and has recently been translated into English as No 20 in the World Rehabilitation Fund's Monograph series. It inchides descriptions of various kinds of disabiiitieS, examples of adapted work sites as well as different types of vocational aids. It also contains information on laws and regulations and advice on where to turn for assistance. Copies in English can be ordered from the Swedish Institute for the Handicapped, Box 303, S-161 26 Bromma, Sweden. The English edition is also available at the World Rehabilitation Fund, 400 East 34th Street, New York, NY 10O16, USA. Z. Novak
Books received Designing for human-computer oommunioations Sime and Coombs Academic Press lnc (London) Ltd, pp 338 + x, £29.
Human performance engineering Robert 14/. Bailey Prentice Hall International, pp 656 ÷ xxiii, £34.20.
Human factors: Understandingpeople-system relatiomhips 8.1-1. Kantowitz and R.D. Sorkin pp 699 + xii, £31.85.
Adapting work sites for people with disabilities: Ideas from Sweden
Ergonomics of workstation design
Editors: G. Elmfeldt,'C. Wise, H. Bergsten and A. O/non The Swedish Institute for the Handicapped, Bromma,
T. O. Kvalseth Butterworths, pp 260 + x, £28.00.
306
AppliedEqlormmics December 1983