论文信息 - Ergonomics aspects of personal protective equipment: its use in industrially developing countries.

Ergonomics aspects of personal protective equipment: its use in industrially developing countries.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) as an ultimate source of preventing occupational injury is needed extensively in both Industrialized Countries (IC) and Industrially Developing Countries (IDC). IDC which are mainly importing PPE from IC are confronting many ergonomics problems because the equipment designed for IC conditions is inappropriate for use in IDC due to significant differences in user body sizes, environment, tasks and working methods, etc. By employing the method of questionnaires, information was obtained from manufacturers in IC to ascertain the design concepts and demands placed in the production of PPE, and from health and safety authorities in IDC to learn the user characteristics and capacities in its use

H Shahnavaz | J D Abeyskera

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