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'Good Engineering Governance' - An Issue For Ergonomists, J V. Nendick, M Hassan, E N. Urwin, Grace A. Kennedy, C E. Siemieniuch, M A. Sinclair

SMART Infrastructure Facility - Papers

Engineering Governance can be summarised as two questions: 'Are we doing the right things?' and 'Are we doing those things right?'. It forms a part of Corporate Governance, and in the manufacturing domain it is the key to long-term survival amid changing commercial contexts. The paper will outline some of the ergonomics issues of importance in this topic; 'ownership' of goverrnance; implications for design, production and operation; and, perhaps most important for Ergonomists, the resulting implications for the design of jobs. These implications cover organisational discipline, the inclusion of suitable, 'effort-free' metrics in engineering processes, the allocation of responsibility and …