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ErgoLAB - Workplace Analysis Software

For taking measures to improve working conditions, it is necessary to specifically analyse which workplaces are potentially damaging to health. Therefore several objective evaluation methods exist which are ergonomically safe and sound, and which previously to our software only were applied by experts.

The software ErgoLAB, which was developed by Ergoneers GmbH, displays a toolbox that now even allows operating practitioners to apply scientifically sound methods to evaluate and create safer workplaces for production in companies in an easy and extensive way.

In our software, which requires no more than a laptop and a web cam for its application, ergonomically recognized objective measuring methods like the OWAS method or the NIOSH method are implemented and used in an intuitively self explaining manner, which guarantees an easy usage. Furthermore the software implements a method, which enables the employees to evaluate from a Body Map, in which parts of the body are shown that are exposed to increased tension based on the analysed activities.

The software has a so-called Project – Workplace Structure. This means that first, before starting to analyse workplaces, a project is defined in which context data is collected. At this point it is possible to name the project (e.g. Production Shop XY) by using an input mask. Besides the user being able to add further information to corresponding input fields, such as the person in charge of the project, the project duration as well as a detailed project description can be added. Within the project, ErgoLAB is able to create different workplaces, to which one or more of the existing analysis methods can be applied. For every workplace definition an input mask appears, in which the user can name the workplace and add a detailed workplace description. Furthermore, via the connected web cam it is always possible to take a picture of the workplace, which is automatically added to the documentation of the results. The available analysis methods can be applied as often as it is required (e.g. to shift work) and in any order for a defined workplace. With the application of any analysis method, the current analysis result is permanently shown to the user, with this they can observe the progress in the best possible way.

A particularly helpful operation is the automatic report generation, which presents all results of a project well structured and graphically edited into a PDF document. This document can immediately serve as report on the given workplace analysis and saves the user time-consuming paperwork. With the results of a workplace analysis it is possible to identify workplaces which based on increased strain on the musculoskeletal system, carry risks of physical impairment or long-term harm of the employee.

Furthermore is it possible to identify that these results are based on an unfavourable geometric design of the workplace, which increasingly causes incorrect posture, or based on too heavy weights through manual handling of loads.

By comparing the objective and subjective measuring methods, their results can be mutually scrutinized and stored. Additional to that the user can figure out from the subjective trouble evaluation, if it has already come to perceptible overtaxing and strain with the resulting physical troubles based on a not optimized given workplace design.




	ErgoLAB - Workplace Analysis Software For taking measures to improve working conditions, it is necessary to specifically analyse which workplaces are potentially damaging to health. Therefore several objective evaluation methods exist which are ergonomically safe and sound, and which previously to our software only were applied by experts. The software ErgoLAB, which was developed by Ergoneers GmbH, displays a toolbox that now even allows operating practitioners to apply scientifically sound methods to evaluate and create safer workplaces for production in companies in an easy and extensive way. In our software, which requires no more than a laptop and a web cam for its application, ergonomically recognized objective measuring methods like the OWAS method or the NIOSH method are implemented and used in an intuitively self explaining manner, which guarantees an easy usage. Furthermore the software implements a method, which enables the employees to evaluate from a Body Map, in which parts of the body are shown that are exposed to increased tension based on the analysed activities. The software has a so-called Project – Workplace Structure. This means that first, before starting to analyse workplaces, a project is defined in which context data is collected. At this point it is possible to name the project (e.g. Production Shop XY) by using an input mask. Besides the user being able to add further information to corresponding input fields, such as the person in charge of the project, the project duration as well as a detailed project description can be added. Within the project, ErgoLAB is able to create different workplaces, to which one or more of the existing analysis methods can be applied. For every workplace definition an input mask appears, in which the user can name the workplace and add a detailed workplace description. Furthermore, via the connected web cam it is always possible to take a picture of the workplace, which is automatically added to the documentation of the results. The available analysis methods can be applied as often as it is required (e.g. to shift work) and in any order for a defined workplace. With the application of any analysis method, the current analysis result is permanently shown to the user, with this they can observe the progress in the best possible way. A particularly helpful operation is the automatic report generation, which presents all results of a project well structured and graphically edited into a PDF document. This document can immediately serve as report on the given workplace analysis and saves the user time-consuming paperwork. With the results of a workplace analysis it is possible to identify workplaces which based on increased strain on the musculoskeletal system, carry risks of physical impairment or long-term harm of the employee. Furthermore is it possible to identify that these results are based on an unfavourable geometric design of the workplace, which increasingly causes incorrect posture, or based on too heavy weights through manual handling of loads. By comparing the objective and subjective measuring methods, their results can be mutually scrutinized and stored. Additional to that the user can figure out from the subjective trouble evaluation, if it has already come to perceptible overtaxing and strain with the resulting physical troubles based on a not optimized given workplace design.