The Importance of Agricultural ErgonomicsThe Importance of Agricultural Ergonomics
- Other Titles
- The Importance of Agricultural Ergonomics
- Authors
- 이관석
- Issue Date
- 2011
- Publisher
- 대한인간공학회
- Keywords
- Agricultural Works; Assistive Equipment; Musculoskeletal disorder; Aging; Agricultural Ergonomics
- Citation
- 대한인간공학회지, v.30, no.4, pp.437 - 441
- Journal Title
- 대한인간공학회지
- Volume
- 30
- Number
- 4
- Start Page
- 437
- End Page
- 441
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/hongik/handle/2020.sw.hongik/20212
- ISSN
- 1229-1684
- Abstract
- Objective: The objective this paper is to introduce the agricultural ergonomics and to show the importance of it in improving the agricultural works. Background: Despite of rapid advancement of technologies and adoption of modern mechanical equipments at farms in Korea, most of agricultural works have still remained manual and thus have regarded as one of the hardest works. With aging and feminization in rural areas, the need to improve agricultural works has grown quite much. Agricultural ergonomics have been known as a good tool in improving agricultural works around the world.
Recently Korean government initiated a national program of providing assistive equipments to help farmers and a few ergonomists started to apply agricultural ergonomics in our rural villages as a part of this program. Method: This study reviewed how Ergonomics was used for the agricultural work. Results: Methods of Ergonomics which are used for the agricultural ergonomics and the simple procedure of the agricultural ergonomics were presented. Conclusion: It was found that agricultural works can be improved quite much using the agricultural ergonomics principle and the musculoskeletal stress of farmers can be reduced significantly.
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