TY - JOUR
T1 - Integration of human factors principles in LARG organizations - a conceptual model
AU - Machado, Virgílio António Cruz
AU - Nunes, Isabel L.
PY - 2012/1/1
Y1 - 2012/1/1
N2 - Nowadays many companies are undergoing organizational transformations in order to meet the changing market demands. Thus, in order to become more competitive, supply chains (SC) are adopting new management paradigms to improve SC performance: lean, agile, resilient and green (LARG paradigms). The implementation of new production paradigms demands particular care with the issues related with Human Factors to avoid health and safety problems to workers and losses to companies. Thus, the successful introduction of these new production paradigms depends among others on a Human Factors oriented approach. This work presents a conceptual framework that allows integrating ergonomic and safety design principles during the different implementation phases of lean, agile, resilient and green practices.
AB - Nowadays many companies are undergoing organizational transformations in order to meet the changing market demands. Thus, in order to become more competitive, supply chains (SC) are adopting new management paradigms to improve SC performance: lean, agile, resilient and green (LARG paradigms). The implementation of new production paradigms demands particular care with the issues related with Human Factors to avoid health and safety problems to workers and losses to companies. Thus, the successful introduction of these new production paradigms depends among others on a Human Factors oriented approach. This work presents a conceptual framework that allows integrating ergonomic and safety design principles during the different implementation phases of lean, agile, resilient and green practices.
KW - Supply chain
KW - Human factors
KW - Conceptual framework
KW - LARG paradigms
U2 - 10.3233/WOR-2012-0374-1712
DO - 10.3233/WOR-2012-0374-1712
M3 - Article
SN - 1051-9815
VL - 41
SP - 1712
EP - 1719
JO - WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation
JF - WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation
IS - NA
ER -