TY - JOUR TT - A CASE STUDY ERGONOMIC AWARENESSES AND USAGE HABITS ON USING OFFICE EQUIPMENT OF OFFICE WORKERS AU - Yakut, Hilal PY - 2013 DA - September JF - Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi JO - SDU SBE PB - Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1304-6373 SP - 85 EP - 96 KW - Ergonomi farkındalığı KW - büro çalışanları N2 - The science of ergonomics links spesific rules man’s relationship with places. In doing so, human anatomy, psychology, and evaluating the environmental conditions for the movement of people to a healthy and productive provides spatial arrangements.It is stand out disorders from the muscular and skeletal and consequently, decrease the capacity of transaction of business and work satisfaction in office workers. Waist, neck, back, hand and wrist pain are common disorders, and this situation is come to mind unconformity with human anatomy and workplace. However, in general knows that office equipment is produced particular standard. In our country, Turkish Standards Institute’s numbared of TS 5337-3 and EN 1335-1-2-3 are specified office equipment and work chair standards. These standards aim at humans actions become healthier and secure in office area. Office equipments are generally standard materials, and it is impossible that these equipment replace office workers’s personal equipment. With set the standards and developing technology, fixed-sized materials have become to appropriate personally usage and body size relatively. However, correct usage of these materials is directly proportionate to ergonomic knowledge and awareness of office workers. Have office workers, to make it healthier their work environments, got to knowledge and awareness of how do changes to healthier their office materials such as table, chair and computer?In this study, ergonomic awareness of office workers about their work places are tested. For this purpose, it is asked to questions about office equipment usage and ergonomic to office workers in order to determine knowledge for ergonomic and awareness level of them. UR - http://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/sbe/issue//247421 L1 - http://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/215221 ER -