Abstract
Ergonomics is considered as a science concerned with the interactions among humans, machinery and other elements of a system. The hand tools used in labour-intensive small-scale industries like agriculture, food processing, furniture, handicraft, brick kilns, etc. are traditional and designed un-ergonomically, which causes musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and other health problems among workers. Various studies on ergonomic design of hand tool have suggested that ergonomic improvements have a great impact on occupational disorders, human working and safety in manual operation. Ergonomically designed hand tools reduce the MSDs upto a significant level. The paper presents various steps of a brief framework for hand tool design based on the literature survey.
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