This research paper presents a study and analysis on the existence of ergonomic risks to drivers while sitting in the vehicle seat for prolonged periods in static posture during driving of a vehicle. The main aim of this research article is to understand and prove the hypothesis on the existence of ergonomic risks of drivers in the sitting static posture in the vehicle. The vehicle in the study here is a car. Test subjects are samples, for the field experiments at the three percentiles namely the 5th, 50th and 90th percentile range of drivers in Singapore. The demographic parameters for the test subjects identified for the purpose of this research encompass the gender, age range and competency level. The dependent variable use for this research is “driver posture” whilst the independent variable used is the
References
[1]
Hughes, P. and Ferret, E. (2013) International Health and Safety at Work for NEBOSH International General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety. 2nd Edition, Routledge, New York. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203096291
[2]
van Veen, S., Orlinskiy, V., Franz, M. and Vink, P. (2015) Investigating Car Passenger Well-Being Related to a Seat Imposing Continuous Posture Variation. Journal of Ergonomics, 5, Article 1000140.
[3]
Stack, T., Lee, T. and Cheryl, A. (2016) Occupational Ergonomics: A Practical Approach. 1st Edition, John Wiley and Sons Inc., Hoboken, NJ.
[4]
Hollnagel, E. (2014) Safety-I and Safety-II: The Past and Future of Safety Management. CRC Press, New York.
[5]
Kyung, G. and Maury, A. (2009) Specifying Comfortable Driving Postures for Ergonomic Design and Evaluation of the Driver Workplace Using Digital Human Models. Ergonomics, 52, 939-953.
[6]
Park, J., et al. (2013) Sitting Strategy Analysis Based on Driving Postures and Seating Pressure Distributions. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 57, 1983-1986. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541931213571443
[7]
Chen, C.C., Woodcock, A., Porter, S. and Scrivener, S.A.R. (n.d.) Embedding Ergonomics in In-Car Interface Design: The Development of a Simulation Based Evaluation. The Design Institute, School of Art and Design, Coventry University, Coventry.
[8]
Andreoni, G., Santambrogio, G.C., Rabuffetti, M. and Pedotti, A. (2002) Method for Analysis of Posture and Interface Pressure of Car Drivers. Applied Ergonomics, 33, 511-522. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-6870(02)00069-8
[9]
Kumar, R. (2011) Research Methodology: A Step-by-Step for Beginners. 3rd Edition, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA.
[10]
Deborah, J. (2014) Statistics for Dummies. 1st Edition, John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York.
[11]
Lucas, E.B. and Onawumi, A.S. (2013) Ergonomic Evaluation of In-Vehicle Interface Design of Taxicabs in Nigeria. International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA), 3, 566-572. https://www.ijera.com/
