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1Department of Ergonomics, University of Technology (Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft der Technischen Hochschule), Darmstadt, Germany.
Applied Ergonomics
|March 1, 1977
Abstract:
There are some traditional ways for instruction and training in ergonomics, for example the academic method or the empirical way of self-taught practitioners. Because of a usually disinterested management, the last way is very often difficult to achieve. This report deals with experiences where a lucky chance happened and the idea of ergonomics arose from the management and became an inspiration of the whole plant.
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