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Ergonomics & Human factors 2018
Archives of Medicine
ISSN: 1989-5216
Page 26
July 26-27, 2018
Rome, Italy
1
st
Edition of International Conference on
Ergonomics &
Human Factors
T
he role of ergonomic design is crucial in raising living
standards and optimizing conditions. In this respect, it
should be taken into consideration that starting from the design
stage of every kind of product, it is the person who takes part in
or benefits from all processes up to the stage of production and
use. Therefore, products and environment should be produced
and designed according to human, machine and environment
relationship. In order to achieve this harmony and relationship,
human characteristics must be known. The harmony and
alignment of the workplace and all its elements with the worker
is only possible through correctly designed workstations.
In this respect, by providing a good harmony between the
worker and the work, it is possible to improve job efficiency
by preventing the wear and tear of the human being from the
difficulties while working. By providing the desired harmony
between occupation and worker, it can be ensured that the
workers are directed to tasks where the individuals can best
use their abilities. For all these reasons, business organization
is very important from an ergonomic point of view. It is not
sufficient that a worker is placed within a human-machine
production system only from a volume perspective. At the
same time, the worker should be able to move easily in order
to be able to carry out different tasks at work. In order for the
mobile worker to be able to perform tasks with specific organs,
there is a need for a certain functional volume. The controlling
units of the machines used must also be included in this
volume. The placement of machine controlling units within the
volume around the worker, in other words positions, distances,
force requirements and frequency of use should be determined
by making use of the anthropometric characteristics of the
human being. The purpose of ergonomic workstation design
is to ensure that workplace measurements conform to human
body measurements. For this purpose, the suitability of the
workstations of the companies in the ready-made clothing
sector, which is one of the most important sectors of Turkey,
in terms of ergonomic design, is very important. In this
respect, the aim of this study is to evaluate the ergonomic
design of the workstations in the ready-made clothing sector.
In this study, workstations of 250 large-scale ready-made
clothing companies under the Turkish Union of Chambers and
Commodity Exchanges, which actively worked in 2017-2018,
were examined and evaluated in terms of ergonomic design.
As a result of the examinations, some solution proposals
have been developed in terms of correct ergonomic design of
workstations.
Biography
Ozlem Kaya completed her degree in 2004 and her masters degree on the
topic of the Analysis of Branding Level of Small Scale Firms in Leather Cloth-
ing Industryat University in 2008. She asserted her PhD thesis which was
on the topic of the Effects of Supply, Production and Logistics Activities of
Textile Clothing firms in Turkey on National CompetitionDr. Kaya has been
continuing her academic career at Hitit University since 2009. She acted as
a subject expert for various commissions/universities and also as paper
setter and evaluator of different institutes/universities. Dr. Kaya has a lot of
articles which were published in national and international journal. She is the
member of Association of Turkish Ergonomics.
dr.ozlemky@gmail.comErgonomic design of workstations: Turkey ready-made
clothing sector case
Özlem Kaya
Hitit University, Turkey
Özlem Kaya, Arch Med 2018, Volume 10
DOI: 10.21767/1989-5216-C1-002