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Human factors and ergonomics in the context of COVID-19: Planning for concepts insertion in a productive systems
Rosley Anholon1, Izabela Simon Rampasso1,2, Robert E Cooper Ordóñez1
1School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Background:
The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging companies worldwide and undergraduate courses need to consider this context within their disciplines, especially regarding human factors and ergonomics. For this, professors should plan how to insert this knowledge into the program content of their discipline.
Objective:
This commentary aims to present how this insertion will be conducted in the second academic semester of 2020 in the discipline "Productive Systems" of the mechanical engineering undergraduate course offered by a Brazilian university.
Methods:
This commentary is based on the authors' points of view and experiences. However, the presented discussion is based on institutional websites and international articles.
Results:
It is possible to verify that human factors and ergonomic aspects related to the pandemic can be debated in several topics of the analyzed discipline.
Conclusions:
Besides presenting the planning of inserting these aspects, this commentary expands the debates on the subject.
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