Clothing and personal equipments in ergonomics

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  • Ohshima M.
    Lab. of Medical Electronics, Faculty of Medicin, Univ. of Tokyo

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  • 人間工学における衣服および個人装備

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Ergonomic aspects of the design of clothing and personal equipments are discussed. Their optimization should be attained by means of functional design fit for work performance and of suitable protection against environmental hazardous conditions. Considerations on clothing materials and dimensional factors, warmth keeping, protection against environmental hazards and comfortability are necessary conditions. Standards and check points for special suits as space suits, fire suits and radioactivity protection suits were summarized in tables. Ergonomic prerequisites for safety equipments as safety helmets were also discussed.

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