International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Jul 23, 2018
The field of occupational health and safety (OHS) focuses on reducing occupational accidents to an acceptable level. OHS covers systematic efforts aimed at providing employee health, safety and welfare in the workplace. This study proposes a new appr...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
May 9, 2018
This study aimed at establishing fault tree analysis (FTA) using expert opinion to compute the probability of an event. To find the probability of the top event (TE), all probabilities of the basic events (BEs) should be available when the FTA is dra...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Apr 11, 2018
The decision matrix method is preferred as a measure of risk evaluation considering the risk value obtained by two risk factors such as the likelihood and severity of a hazard. However, it has some deficiencies since a crisp risk score is assigned fo...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Mar 23, 2018
PURPOSE: In ergonomics and human factors investigations, pulling force (PF) estimation has usually been achieved using various types of biomechanical models, and independent approximation of PF was done with the help of upper extremity joints. Recent...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Sep 19, 2017
INTRODUCTION: Shift patterns, work hours, work arrangements and worker motivations have increasingly become key factors for job performance. The main objective of this article is to design an expert system that identifies the negative effects of shif...