Ingenieros de Factores Humanos y Ergonomistas
Diseñar objetos, instalaciones y entornos para optimizar el bienestar humano y el rendimiento general del sistema, aplicando teoría, principios y datos sobre la relación entre los humanos y la tecnología respectiva. Investigar y analizar características del comportamiento y desempeño humano en relación con el uso de la tecnología.
Herramientas tecnológicas
Tareas principales
- Collect data through direct observation of work activities or witnessing the conduct of tests.
- Realizar entrevistas o encuestas a usuarios o clientes para recopilar información sobre temas como requisitos, necesidades, fatiga, ergonomía o interfaces.
- Abogar por los usuarios finales en colaboración con otros profesionales, incluidos ingenieros, diseñadores, gerentes o clientes.
- Inspect work sites to identify physical hazards.
- Prepare reports or presentations summarizing results or conclusions of human factors engineering or ergonomics activities, such as testing, investigation, or validation.
- Perform functional, task, or anthropometric analysis, using tools, such as checklists, surveys, videotaping, or force measurement.
- Recomendar cambios en el lugar de trabajo para mejorar la salud y la seguridad, utilizando el conocimiento de factores potencialmente dañinos, como cargas pesadas o movimientos repetitivos.
- Provide technical support to clients through activities, such as rearranging workplace fixtures to reduce physical hazards or discomfort or modifying task sequences to reduce cycle time.
- Assess the user-interface or usability characteristics of products.
- Establish system operating or training requirements to ensure optimized human-machine interfaces.
- Integrate human factors requirements into operational hardware.
- Review health, safety, accident, or worker compensation records to evaluate safety program effectiveness or to identify jobs with high incidence of injury.
- Design or evaluate human work systems, using human factors engineering and ergonomic principles to optimize usability, cost, quality, safety, or performance.
- Escriba, revise o comente documentos, como propuestas, planes de prueba o procedimientos.
- Train users in task techniques or ergonomic principles.
- Conduct research to evaluate potential solutions related to changes in equipment design, procedures, manpower, personnel, or training.
- Provide human factors technical expertise on topics, such as advanced user-interface technology development or the role of human users in automated or autonomous sub-systems in advanced vehicle systems.
- Desarrollar o implementar protocolos de investigación, investigación o análisis del desempeño humano.
- Develop or implement research methodologies or statistical analysis plans to test and evaluate developmental prototypes used in new products or processes, such as cockpit designs, user workstations, or computerized human models.
- Estimar los requisitos de tiempo o recursos para proyectos de investigación o desarrollo de factores ergonómicos o humanos.
- Design cognitive aids, such as procedural storyboards or decision support systems.
- Analyze complex systems to determine potential for further development, production, interoperability, compatibility, or usefulness in a particular area, such as aviation.
- Investigar cuestiones teóricas o conceptuales, como las consideraciones de diseño humano de los módulos de aterrizaje o hábitats lunares.
- Operate testing equipment, such as heat stress meters, octave band analyzers, motion analysis equipment, inclinometers, light meters, thermoanemometers, sling psychrometers, or colorimetric detection tubes.
- Perform statistical analyses, such as social network pattern analysis, network modeling, discrete event simulation, agent-based modeling, statistical natural language processing, computational sociology, mathematical optimization, or systems dynamics.
- Aplicar modelización o análisis cuantitativo para pronosticar eventos, como decisiones o comportamientos humanos, la estructura o procesos de las organizaciones, o las actitudes o acciones de grupos humanos.
- Assess systems to identify and quantify risk factors.
Habilidades
Conocimiento
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Actividades laborales
Contexto laboral
How frequently does your job require you to use E-mail?
99%
Telephone Conversations
How often do you have telephone conversations in this job?
92%
Face-to-Face Discussions with Individuals and Within Teams
How frequently does your job require face-to-face discussions with individuals and within teams?
90%
Freedom to Make Decisions
How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer?
90%
Determine Tasks, Priorities and Goals
How much freedom does the worker have in determining the tasks, priorities, or goals of the job?
89%
Indoors, Environmentally Controlled
How often does this job require working indoors in an environmentally controlled environment (like a warehouse with air conditioning)?
88%
Work With or Contribute to a Work Group or Team
How important is it to work with or contribute to a work group or team in this job?
78%
Contact With Others
How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it?
74%
Health and Safety of Other Workers
How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job?
70%
Importance of Being Exact or Accurate
How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job?
69%
Duration of Typical Work Week
Number of hours typically worked in one week.
68%
Written Letters and Memos
How frequently does your job require written letters and memos?
65%
Spend Time Sitting
How much does this job require sitting?
64%
Time Pressure
How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines?
64%
Coordinate or Lead Others in Accomplishing Work Activities
How important is it to coordinate or lead others (not as a supervisor or team leader) in accomplishing work activities in this job?
63%
Physical Proximity
To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks physically close to other people?
62%
Deal With External Customers or the Public in General
How important is it to deal with external customers (as in retail sales) or the public in general (as in police work) in this job?
60%
Level of Competition
To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures?
60%
Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results
What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer?
57%
Work Outcomes and Results of Other Workers
How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers?
53%
Frequency of Decision Making
How often is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization?
47%
Indoors, Not Environmentally Controlled
How often does this job require working in an environment that is not environmentally controlled (like a warehouse without air conditioning)?
45%
Public Speaking
How frequently does your job require public speaking (one speaker with an audience)?
45%
Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets
How often does this job require wearing common protective or safety equipment such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, hard hats or life-jackets?
44%
Importance of Repeating Same Tasks
How important are continuous, repetitive, physical activities (like key entry) or mental activities (like checking entries in a ledger) to performing this job?
43%
Spend Time Standing
How much does this job require standing?
41%
Consequence of Error
How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not easily correctable?
40%
Conflict Situations
How frequently are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job?
38%
Exposed to Sounds, Noise Levels that are Distracting or Uncomfortable
How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable?
35%
Dealing With Unpleasant, Angry, or Discourteous People
How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements?
33%
Outdoors, Exposed to All Weather Conditions
How often does this job require working outdoors, exposed to all weather conditions?
32%
Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls
How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls?
31%
In an Enclosed Vehicle or Operate Enclosed Equipment
How often does this job require working in a closed vehicle or operate enclosed equipment (like a car)?
29%
Outdoors, Under Cover
How often does this job require working outdoors, under cover (like in an open shed)?
29%
Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions
How much does this job require making repetitive motions?
29%
Spend Time Walking or Running
How much does this job require walking or running?
29%
Exposed to Extremely Bright or Inadequate Lighting Conditions
How often does this job require working in extremely bright or inadequate lighting conditions?
25%
Exposed to Cramped Work Space, Awkward Positions
How often does this job require working in cramped work spaces that requires getting into awkward positions?
23%
Exposed to Hazardous Equipment
How often does this job require exposure to hazardous equipment?
23%
Wear Specialized Protective or Safety Equipment such as Breathing Apparatus, Safety Harness, Full Protection Suits, or Radiation Protection
How often does this job require wearing specialized protective or safety equipment such as breathing apparatus, safety harness, full protection suits, or radiation protection?
23%
Work Schedules
How regular are the work schedules for this job?
23%
Exposed to Contaminants
How often does this job require working exposed to contaminants (such as pollutants, gases, dust or odors)?
20%
Exposed to High Places
How often does this job require exposure to high places?
20%
Spend Time Bending or Twisting Your Body
How much does this job require bending or twisting your body?
20%
Degree of Automation
How automated is the job?
19%
Exposed to Very Hot or Cold Temperatures
How often does this job require working in very hot (above 90 F degrees) or very cold (below 32 F degrees) temperatures?
19%
Spend Time Kneeling, Crouching, Stooping, or Crawling
How much does this job require kneeling, crouching, stooping or crawling?
18%
Exposed to Whole Body Vibration
How often does this job require exposure to whole body vibration (like operating a jackhammer or earth moving equipment)?
17%
In an Open Vehicle or Operating Equipment
How often does this job require working in an open vehicle or operating equipment (like a tractor)?
15%
Exposed to Hazardous Conditions
How often does this job require exposure to hazardous conditions?
13%
Spend Time Climbing Ladders, Scaffolds, or Poles
How much does this job require climbing ladders, scaffolds, poles, etc.?
13%
Pace Determined by Speed of Equipment
How important is it to this job that the pace is determined by the speed of equipment or machinery? (This does not refer to keeping busy at all times on this job.)
9%
Dealing with Violent or Physically Aggressive People
How frequently does this job require the worker to deal with physical aggression of violent individuals?
8%
Exposed to Disease or Infections
How often does this job require exposure to disease/infections?
8%
Exposed to Minor Burns, Cuts, Bites, or Stings
How often does this job require exposure to minor burns, cuts, bites, or stings?
8%
Exposed to Radiation
How often does this job require exposure to radiation?
7%
Spend Time Keeping or Regaining Balance
How much does this job require keeping or regaining your balance?
5%
Educación
Master's degree
Bachelor's degree
Post-baccalaureate certificate
Intereses
Investigative
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Realistic
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Conventional
Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or hum
Enterprising
Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertis
Artistic
Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts,
Social
Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.
Estilos de trabajo
Valores laborales
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