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A study of automotive workers anthropometric physical characteristics from Mexico Northwest

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Lucero-Duarte, Karla | de la Vega-Bustillos, Enrique | López-Millán, Francisco

Affiliations: Departamento de ingeniería Industrial, Instituto Tecnológico de Hermosillo, Av. Tecnológico S/N, Hermosillo, Sonora, México | División de Estudios de Posgrado e Investigación, Instituto Tecnológico de Hermosillo, Av. Tecnológico S/N, Hermosillo, Sonora, México

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: Work design, workstation design, populations comparison

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0834-5405

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 5405-5407, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

Due to the lack of anthropometric information in northwest Mexico, we did an anthropometric study that represents the population physical characteristics and that is reliable for the design or redesign of workstations. The study was divided in two phases. The first one was the anthropometric study of 2900 automotive industry workers in northwest of Mexico. The study includes 40 body dimensions of 2345 males and 555 females personalized to be used in future researches. Second phase includes compared anthropometric characteristics of population reported in four Mexican studies and a Colombian study against the current study. Benefits of this project are: a reliable database of anthropometric characteristic of automotive industry population for workstations design or redesign that match with the users, increase product quality and reduce economic, medical and union complains.

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