Human Workplace and Environmental Factors Book

Dr. Mariam Ameer

Mar 2023 · Shineeks Publishers

About this ebook

This book is designed with 4 chapters to providefairly a comprehensive set of knowledge for the good fitting between humans and the surrounding workplace environment. It is also designed to provide a proper analysis of human-workplace systems. Its focus is on the surrounding workplace environmental and human factors which mainly affected the quality of workplace design and interaction with human beings. The book’s emphasis is placed on designing the tasks, environments, and workplaces with which humans work according to the suitable environmental and human factors to avoid mismatching between the workplace-task-environment and humans. In this book, the common thread is on howbetter human and environmental factors can lead to improved comfort, psychological acceptance,safety, pleasure, andefficiency in all components of workfields (workplace, task, and environment).

The author expects this book to be of use to individuals who work in engineering or medical fields. The book is designed with the aim of engineers and designers can design the workplace to be suitable for humans and medical health practitioners to provide advice to the workers inside the workplaces to adjust their body mechanics and protect them against workplace hazards. The author hopesthatengineers,designers, and medical health practitioners will preserve the book and apply it in their careers.

About the author

Assistant Professor of Biomechanics, College of Physical Therapy, Cairo University, Egypt; Bachelor Degree (BS, 2002), Master Degree (MS, 2008), Doctoral Degree. (Ph.D., 2013). Dr. Mariam was a university staff and researcher at Physical Therapy College, Biomechanics Department, Cairo University, Egypt, from 2003 to 2018. In 2003, she worked in a sports injury clinic as a physiotherapy specialist for sports injuries and rehabilitation. In 2014, she worked for three years as a supervisor and researcher in the biomechanics laboratory, Physical Therapy Department, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Imam Abdurrahman Bin Faisal University (formerly Dammam University), K.S.A. In 2019, she was assigned as an Associate Professor in the Department of Physical therapy and health Rehabilitation, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Jouf University. She taught Biomechanics and Ergonomics to undergraduate and postgraduate students from 2003 to now. Dr. Mariam has authored and co-authored over 28 publications in peer-reviewed journals. In 2018, she published a book about the effect of exercise on postmenopausal women.