Abstract
Modern engineer training is not conceivable without knowledge of work psychology and ergonomics. In this paper, we would like to outline the situation of work psychology and ergonomics as well as their changes in Hungary. The technical approach to health and safety is linked to human health care, and, through that, to ergonomics. The traditional notion of ergonomics is the 'ergonomics of scales, levers and pedals', which has now become a field of research helping the development of socio-technical systems. Here, we present the developmental stages of ergonomics, divided into six periods, first, and then the relationship between environmental ergonomics and health and safety. In the last chapter, I shall expound a few details from Hungarian investigations in work psychology, as well as from the activity of prominent academic circles at certain universities.
Highlights
Work psychology and ergonomics has become important and part of the curriculum in higher education and vocational education, but nearly omnipresent in everyday life
The motivational background and the international perspective described in the INTRODUCTION have justified sufficiently that it is necessary to describe the changes of ergonomics and its situation in Hungary in more detail and depth
The six developmental stages of ergonomics give a clear indication of the strengthening of ergonomics and the transformation of its areas to investigate, as a result of technical development, on the one hand
Summary
Work psychology and ergonomics has become important and part of the curriculum in higher education and vocational education, but nearly omnipresent in everyday life. Besides the pedagogic issues of engineer training, the IGIP deals with the didactical-methodical problems regarding the training of engineering educators and, through that, vocational education The latter area is not addressed by this organisation so strongly, though its international practice and, related to that, the teaching of ergonomics is important here, in higher education. We can observe that this teaching and research is taken care of in an organised and integrated way at the Institute of Applied Pedagogy and Psychology (APPI), which can be found in a leading institution of engineer training, the Budapest University of Technology (BME). Based on the situation outlined above, I deem it necessary to describe the developmental phases of the study of ergonomics and its situation in Hungary in more detail
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