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Ergonomic Design Thinking (EDT) is a project management methodology that takes advantage of two important concepts or themes in carrying out project actions. The first is Design Thinking itself, a project management approach originally proposed by Tim Brown, who knew beforehand the full potential of design tools, techniques and maybe we should add idiosyncrasies. Designers have "their own way" of following through and carrying out issues such as deadlines and sequences, for example. This logic is similar to another important theme: ergonomics. The main objective of ergonomics is adapting work systems to workers themselves. By doing so, its professionals dig deep into the social technical fabric of a workplace and use recurrent and iterative strategies in order to search for a perfect fit for a given workstation. EDT as a modeling guide for workspace projects have been used in Brazil for quite some time. This text outlines an interesting experience in which EDT was used as a conception tool in building a new health safety and environmental (HSE) management system model for construction sites. A real case-an ongoing construction work-was used to contextualize the experiment and better define the various instruments of this HSE model. Due to the work environment and predominant job characteristics available, the EDT approach did quite well in terms of serving its project management purpose, as it was confirmed when the new system became fully functional.

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The term human engineering has come into common use in recent years to refer to the adaptation for human use of work equipment, work space, work environments, and, to some extent, consumer products. While the term is a relatively new one, this does not imply that human engineering is a new development in human life. In one sense human engineering is as old as man, since human beings have always attempted to adapt their equipment and environment to their own use. While the term human engineering does not, then, represent a new field of human endeavor, it does reflect a recent shift in emphasis in the area of endeavor that the term represents. Specifically, this shift in emphasis has been in the direction of placing greater reliance upon systematic research, and reduced reliance upon human experience, as the basis for developing principles to be applied in adapting equipment, work space, and work environments for human use. Although this book is not intended to be a complete handbook of human-engineering data, material from the more important areas will be included. Aside from the presentation of factual information, however, it is hoped that the book may aid in developing an awareness of the importance of human factors in engineering and an appreciation of the potential utility to engineering of research as applied to human beings.

Human engineering. --- Ergonomics.