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ergonomist

ergonomist

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A person who designs workplaces and tools to make them safer and more comfortable for people
  • noun
  • /ˌɜrɡəˈnɒmɪst/
  • Specialized
: ergonomista
  • An ergonomist designed a new office layout to improve employee comfort and productivity.

Examples

  • The final shape for the new handle was created in cooperation with an ergonomist at the University of Kiel in Germany and an industrial design company.

    Academic text (2002)
  • Stephen Barraclough and Wendy Jones explain more about what ergonomists do.

    Academic text (2015)
  • How specialist ergonomists can help occupational health.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Occupational health practitioners might also encounter situations where they can work with a chartered ergonomist to address a particular problem.

    Academic text (2015)
  • While larger organizations may employ in-house ergonomists as part of their health and safety function, there is scope in smaller companies to buy in expertise for specific projects.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Many OH practitioners are likely to have substantial experience in some fields of ergonomics and may have developed some of their skills by attending courses run by ergonomists.

    Academic text (2015)
  • For example, complex manual handling tasks or the design of a production line may be assessed by an ergonomist who has particular knowledge of physical ergonomics and/or who may also design and run training for employees involved in these tasks.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The ergonomics profession was recently granted a Royal Charter, and there are many ways ergonomists can work in collaboration with OH professionals to enhance the safety and well-being of working people.

    Academic text (2015)
  • One important group is ergonomists, and the recent granting of a Royal Charter to the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors recognizes their contribution to workplace health and safety (p. 22).

    Academic text (2015)
  • The company hired an ergonomist to ensure that their workstations were safe and efficient.

Surface Forms

ergonomist singular
ergonomists plural

Morphology

ergonomist = ergonomics (transparent) = ergonomics + ist

Regular agentive formation: adding the suffix '-ist' to the field name 'ergonomics' produces 'a specialist in ergonomics', so the relation is directly derivable.

Etymology

Ergonomist comes from the Greek roots ergon 'work' and nomos 'rule'. An ergonomist finds the best 'rules of work' to design tools and workplaces so they are safer, more comfortable, and easier to use.