Lewis Barbe is a highly trained engineer who holds numerous professional certifications related to his field of expertise, safety engineering. He is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, the Canadian Society of Safety Engineers, and the American Society of Testing Materials, among many other professional associations.
He has done extensive work in the field of ergonomics, an applied science that relates to the design and arrangement of things that people use and interact with. “Ergonomics,” Lewis Barbe states, “is about the study of work and man and total environmental relationships. It means that man and [his] work environment must be designed to be compatible.”
Standards for ergonomics, he explained, suggest guidelines for the man and work environment relationship. It can be used by engineers, architects, and other professional to eliminate design flaws in equipment, which could result in injury in those who use them. The standards will provide an engineering methodology that can be used to determine whether or not something is safe.
In 2000, the International Ergonomics Association defined ergonomics this way: “Ergonomics (or human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data, and other methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance.”
Lewis C Barbe is a member of the American National Standards Institute, or ANSI. He has been a member of ANSI for more than twenty five years, and has sat on many of its committees. ANSI wrote standards for the use of different products, such as the desktop computer, that in some instances were adopted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. “We wrote standards for human factors that your hand and elbow have to be the same level as a computer keyboard,” he recalls. “We write the standards, and OSHA enforces them.”
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He has done extensive work in the field of ergonomics, an applied science that relates to the design and arrangement of things that people use and interact with. “Ergonomics,” Lewis Barbe states, “is about the study of work and man and total environmental relationships. It means that man and [his] work environment must be designed to be compatible.”
Standards for ergonomics, he explained, suggest guidelines for the man and work environment relationship. It can be used by engineers, architects, and other professional to eliminate design flaws in equipment, which could result in injury in those who use them. The standards will provide an engineering methodology that can be used to determine whether or not something is safe.
In 2000, the International Ergonomics Association defined ergonomics this way: “Ergonomics (or human factors) is the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data, and other methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance.”
Lewis C Barbe is a member of the American National Standards Institute, or ANSI. He has been a member of ANSI for more than twenty five years, and has sat on many of its committees. ANSI wrote standards for the use of different products, such as the desktop computer, that in some instances were adopted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. “We wrote standards for human factors that your hand and elbow have to be the same level as a computer keyboard,” he recalls. “We write the standards, and OSHA enforces them.”
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