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Podcast: Jim Bennett - HOT Leadership
Episode: Human Factors: Designing for people overview
Description: Designing for people is a design process that focuses on the needs and characteristics of the users or operators.Good design takes into account how the operator is expected to interact with the workplace set up, the work equipment and how the work equipment fits into the system as a whole. As a result, facilities, hardware, systems, equipment, product tooling, materials, layout and configurations are adapted to human skills, limitations and anatomy.The design process requires an analysis of the work tasks that operators have to carry out and the effect of any constraints that the...