A Case Study of Improving Agricultural Work Environment through Work Domain Analysis

In order to improve the agricultural work environment, many efforts to reduce the hazard from musculoskeletal disorders in Korean pepper farming operation have been made in such a way to do human factors engineering approach and relevant education. Although the efforts showed some contributions to improve agricultural work environment, the output from the various studies are obviously not sustainable and the problems in performing the pepper work are not still occurred. This paper shows one of the trials to resolve the problems by means of introducing the systematic approach to analyze the work domain and tasks. In this study, the systematic analysis such as Work Domain Analysis show showed that it helped to improve agricultural work environment.