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Assessment of Ergonomic Aspects in Dental Clinic Rooms

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

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Orenha, Eliel Soares | Naressi, Suely Mutti Carvalho | Teixeira, Symone Cristina | Rosetti, Enzo | Plácido da Silva, José Carlos | Bormio, Mariana Falcão | Fontana, Artemis Rodrigues | Meneghim, Marcelo de Castro | Soares, Angélica Cristiane Búlio

Affiliations: Social and Infant Clinics Department, Univ Est Paulista - UNESP/São José dos Campos Dental School, Av. Eng. Fco. José Longo777, Jardim São Dimas, CEP 12245-000, São José dos Campos-São Paulo, Brazil | Department of Industrial Design, Univ Est Paulista – UNESP/Faculty of Architecture, Arts and Communication, Av Eng Luiz Edmundo Carrijo Coube, n° 14-01, CEP 17.033-360, Vargem Limpa, Bauru - São Paulo, Brazil | Department of Social Dentistry, University of Campinas – UNICAMP, Piracicaba Dental School, P.O. Box 52, CEP 13414-903, Piracicaba-São Paulo, Brazil

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: eliel@fosjc.unesp.br. Eng Francisco José Longo, n° 777 - Jardim São Dimas. São José dos Campos – SP, Brazil. CEP: 12245-000, Fone: +55 012 39479344.

Keywords: ergonomics, design, dental equipment

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-1068-6103

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 6103-6106, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

This study aimed to describe how to evaluate and quantify the ergonomic satisfaction level of dental clinics rooms. Requirements for design, production and selection of dental equipment as described in ISO/TC-106/SC-6-N-411, support more comprehensive studies for an ergonomic evaluation and ergo design of the dental workstations. It was created a checklist of ergonomics requirements which is supported by Standards ISO/FDI and acquired by mean of a literature review. According to information exposed at the document of the Ergonomics Society of Dental Ergonomics - ESDE we can consider that the elaboration of an ergonomic evaluation protocol regard to the dental workstation is an important demand for the ergonomics, particularly in relation to the performance of the ergonomic design which presents qualified to assist to dental equipment manufactures. By this means, the identification of the evaluation factors pointed in ISO/TC 106/SC 6 N 411 offers the basic information to the process of elaboration of this protocol addressed by the described general guidelines.

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