Scenario 2 Ben the Truck Driver In this scenario Ben is a tr

Scenario #2: Ben the Truck Driver. In this scenario, Ben is a truck driver who has been driving for at least 15 years and is now complaining of right shoulder and neck pain. Ben is 45 years old, 6 feet tall, and weighs 220 pounds. Ben has been driving a semi-truck, which has a handle for climbing into the truck and it is mounted on the side of the cab. The trailers Ben usually hauls are box trailers, and Ben has to climb into and out of the trailer multiple times per day using the handle on the rear of the trailer.

Ergonomics Observation Report

The Worker

What is the worker’s name?

Male or female?

Height?

Weight?

Age?

The Work Setting

Describe the work setting.

Anatomy and Physiology

What types of human systems are involved in the worker’s daily activity? Be specific.

Has the worker mentioned any pain? If yes, explain.

What are the potential cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) or musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)?

Fit

How would you describe the fit of the work activity and setting? Be sure to mention how the human body fits.

Enjoyment

How would you describe the enjoyment of the work activity and setting? Be sure to mention how the human body impacts enjoyment.

Personnel’s Input for Design

To involve personnel in the design, what types of questions would you ask the worker to improve the ergonomics of the work environment? (include at least five questions)

The Worker
What is the worker’s name?
Male or female?
Height?
Weight?
Age?
The Work Setting
Describe the work setting.
Anatomy and Physiology
What types of human systems are involved in the worker’s daily activity? Be specific.
Has the worker mentioned any pain? If yes, explain.
What are the potential cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) or musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)?
Fit
How would you describe the fit of the work activity and setting? Be sure to mention how the human body fits.
Enjoyment
How would you describe the enjoyment of the work activity and setting? Be sure to mention how the human body impacts enjoyment.
Personnel’s Input for Design
To involve personnel in the design, what types of questions would you ask the worker to improve the ergonomics of the work environment? (include at least five questions)

Solution

The Worker-

What is the worker’s name?

Ben

Male or female?

Male

Height?

6 feet

Weight?

220 pounds

Age?

46 years

The Work Setting

Describe the work setting.

Ben is a truck driver who has been driving for at least 15 years

Anatomy and Physiology

What types of human systems are involved in the worker’s daily activity? Be specific.

A system is a collection of parts that interact together for a common purpose. But a system is not just any old collection of parts. The parts are related in such a way that each depends on the others to do whatever job there is to be done. No single part can do the job alone, and any malfunction or delay is likely to affect the whole system.

A body system is a set of body parts that do a particular task. The human body itself is an example of a complex system—many sets of interacting parts that work to keep the human machine running. On any single day, we can estimate that your heart beats 103,689 times, your blood travels 168,000,000 miles, your digestive system processes 7.8 pounds of waste, and your lungs take in 438 cubic feet of air. These are only a few of the multitude of functions the human body performs. And while the least little mishap could cause a glitch in the system, amazingly, day in and day out over most of our lifetime, our bodies operate almost flawlessly.

Has the worker mentioned any pain? If yes, explain.

Yes. Ben  is now complaining of right shoulder and neck pain

What are the potential cumulative trauma disorders (CTDs) or musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs)?

Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD): Cumulative – occurring gradually over a period of days, weeks, months or years; Trauma – bodily injury to nerves, tissues, discs, tendons or joints; Disorder – physical aliment or abnormal condition.

Back Disorders, Shoulders disorders,neck disorders,elbow disorders,knee disorders etc.

Enjoyment

How would you describe theenjoyment of the work activity and setting? Be sure to mention how the human body impactsenjoyment.

Philosophers who write about “enjoyment” typically take their subject matter to be either of two things, each corresponding to a different sense of the term:

In the first case our concern is simply a psychological matter. Just as inquiry about pleasure or depression fundamentally concerns questions of psychology, inquiry about happiness in this sense—call it the (long-term) “psychological sense”—is fundamentally the study of certain mental states. What is this state of mind we call happiness? Typical answers to this question include life satisfaction, pleasure, or a positive emotional condition.

Having answered that question, a further question arises: how valuable is this mental state? Since ‘happiness’ in this sense is just a psychological term, you could intelligibly say that happiness isn\'t valuable at all. Perhaps you are a high-achieving intellectual who thinks that only ignoramuses can be happy. On this sort of view, happy people are to be pitied, not envied. The present article will center on happiness in the psychological sense.

In the second case, our subject matter is a kind of value, namely what philosophers nowadays tend to call prudential value—or, more commonly, well-being, welfare, utility or flourishing.

Personnel’s Input for Design

To involve personnel in the design, what types of questions would you ask the worker to improve the ergonomics of the work environment? (include at least five questions)

What is the worker’s name?	Ben
Male or female?	Male
Height?	6 feet
Weight?	220 pounds
Age?	46 years