Health-Related Parameters for Evaluation Methodologies of Human Operators in Industry: A Systematic Literature Review

Nicolas Murcia, Olivier Cardin, Abdelmoula Mohafid and Marie-Pascale Senkel
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Nicolas Murcia: Airbus Atlantic, Airbus Group, 44550 Montoir-de-Bretagne, France
Olivier Cardin: LS2N UMR CNRS 6004–IUT de Nantes, Nantes University, 44470 Carquefou, France
Abdelmoula Mohafid: LS2N UMR CNRS 6004–IUT de Nantes, Nantes University, 44470 Carquefou, France
Marie-Pascale Senkel: LEMNA EA 4272–IUT de Saint-Nazaire, Nantes University, 44600 Saint-Nazaire, France

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 23, 1-20

Abstract: Human factors have always been an important part of research in industry, but more recently the idea of sustainable development has attracted considerable interest for manufacturing companies and management practitioners. Incorporating human factors into a decision system is a difficult challenge for manufacturing companies because the data related to human factors are difficult to sense and integrate into the decision-making processes. Our objectives with this review are to propose an overview of the different methods to measure human factors, of the solutions to reduce the occupational strain for workers and of the technical solutions to integrate these measures and solutions into a complex industrial decision system. The Scopus database was systematically searched for works from 2014 to 2021 that describe some aspects of human factors in industry. We categorized these works into three different classes, representing the specificity of the studied human factor. This review aims to show the main differences between the approaches of short-term fatigue, long-term physical strain and psychosocial risks. Long-term physical strain is the subject that concentrates the most research efforts, mainly with physical and simulation techniques to highlight physical constraints at work. Short-term fatigue and psychosocial constraints have become a growing concern in industry due to new technologies that increase the requirements of cognitive activities of workers. Human factors are taking an important place in the sustainable development of industry, in order to ameliorate working conditions. However, vigilance is required because health-related data creation and exploitation are sensible for the integrity and privacy of workers.

Keywords: ergonomics; industry; human factor; fatigue; long-term physical strain; psychosocial risk; occupational disease (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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