IISE transactions on occupational ergonomics and human factors
Nov 11, 2023
OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONSOur survey of 100 manufacturing facilities revealed statistically significant differences among company types in their perceptions of cost savings, productivity gains, and safety improvements as benefits of robotic implementa...
Construction waste sorting (CWS) is highly recommended as a key step for construction waste management. However, current CWS involves humans' manual hand-picking, which poses significant threats to their occupational safety and health (OSH). Robotic ...
INTRODUCTION: A variety of factors are driving the development of robotics and automation in the agriculture industry including the nature of work, workforce shortages, and a variety of economic, climatic, technologic, political, and social factors. ...
OBJECTIVE: This study aims to improve workers' postures and thus reduce the risk of musculoskeletal disorders in human-robot collaboration by developing a novel model-free reinforcement learning method.
International journal of environmental research and public health
May 21, 2023
Robots have been deployed in workplaces to assist, work alongside, or collaborate with human workers on various tasks, which introduces new occupational safety and health hazards and requires research efforts to address these issues. This study inves...
American journal of health promotion : AJHP
Mar 31, 2023
The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) defines as "policies, programs and practices that integrate protection from work-related safety and health hazards with promotion of injury and illness prevention efforts to advance wo...
American journal of industrial medicine
Sep 20, 2022
An algorithm refers to a series of stepwise instructions used by a machine to perform a mathematical operation. In 1955, the term artificial intelligence (AI) was coined to indicate that a machine could be programmed to duplicate human intelligence. ...
International journal of occupational safety and ergonomics : JOSE
Aug 25, 2022
Hospitals provide direct and indirect employment benefits to medical professionals. Accidents in hospitals often lead to disastrous consequences such as fatalities, property damage and economic losses. It is, therefore, imperative to have an occupat...
BACKGROUND: Hazards of the workplace and their impacts on the healthcare industry affect the quality of patient care and safety and impose high costs on the healthcare industry. Occupational health in this industry requires proper identification of h...
Recently, workers in most enterprises suffer from excessive occupational stress in the workplace, which negatively affects workers' productivity, safety, and health. To deal with stress in workers, it is vital for the human resource management (HRM) ...
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