The Road to Automation
This age during the Industrial Revolution superseded the age of hand tools and manual work.
What is the age of mechanization?
The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) claims that employers have an obligation to develop safety guidelines and better designed equipment for workplace stations known as VDTs.
What are Video Display Terminals?
Although the Jetson's takes place in 2062, we are still quite a ways from facilities with robot-only production.
What is a "peopleless factory?"
Fixed pathway and broadcasted signals are the two types of guidance systems used for these machines in the workplace.
What are automated vehicles?
Safety and health professionals can apply this theory as they work to minimize the potential problems associated with automation in the modern workplace.
What is the sociotechnical systems theory?
Computer Numerical Controls, Computers, Computer-based Word Processors, Local Access Networks.
What are "Islands of Automation"?
The process of excreting tears.
What is lacrimation?
The total area within which the moving parts of the robot actually move.
What is the "work envelope?"
Inertial navigation is used in conjunction with an odometer to control direction, speed, positioning, and distance with this guidance system.
What is a free-range guidance system?
Professionals applying the sociotechnical systems theory must be technicians, diplomats, trainers, and continually interact with management to establish and maintain support for safety, health, and quality of life issues in this role.
What is a lobbyist?
A complex concept involving physiological, psychological, and social factors at work.
What is workplace stress?
Named for the eight bones in the wrist called the "carpals" which form a tunnel-like structure. Repetitive use can cause swelling that affects the median nerve resulting in this syndrome.
What is the Carpal Tunnel?
In an effort to ensure safe human-robot interaction, this organization provides strategies for minimizing the hazards associated with robots.
What is the NSC? (National Safety Council)
This emerging guidance system uses mirrors and lasers in combination with this concept to control automated vehicles.
What is triangulation?
A safety fence, speed controls, emergency stop device, control panel outside of the fence, and establishment of automatic shutdown switches, are examples of safety measures to be used at this level.
What is the technological systems level?
Over time, movements such as pinching, twisting, and flexing can result in these maladies known as RSIs.
What are Repetitive Strain Injuries.
This research suggests strategies for reducing the physiological and psychological problems associated with VDT use.
What is The Kurimoto Research?
Practitioners in this industry are concerned about the interaction of humans and automated machines, particularly robots and computers.
What is industrial medicine?
First established in 1913, this American institute published a Standard for Guided Industrial Vehicles and Automated Functions of Manned Industrial Vehicles in 2019.
What is ANSI B56.5?
(American National Standards Institute)
Intense international competition, mental stress, worker anxiety, new occupational diseases, unexpected hazards, and the fear of being replaced by automated processes can result in this.
What is employee alienation?
The use of robots in factory settings has reduced the occurrence of RSIs. Quite the opposite for these other settings.
What are office settings?
Appendix D-2 of 29 CFR 1910.900 provides information to assess and correct risks associated with VDT workstations. The CFR is an acronym to describe this multi-part document.
What is the Code of Federal Regulations?
This can manifest itself as an urge to quit work; fatigue; problems with human relations; drop in work performance; social pathological phenomena; mood swings; loss of motivation; and accidents.
What is maladaptation?
Safe operation practices for automated vehicles includes; clearly mark all path used, put barriers around work areas, equip vehicles with detection systems, and to provide this for workers.
What is training?
Along with accident prevention, these professionals should be involved with process design, training, team cooperation, technologies impact, research on human-automated equipment interaction, and more focused accident reporting to help cope with these challenges of the future.
What are professional ergonomists?