Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present an attempt to develop an instrument containing operational measures of lean combined with safety and ergonomic conditions in a workstation or production line. This operational tool aims to help researchers and practitioners to prioritize and...

Environmental risk assessment for discharge of hazardous ship waste / F. Ferreira, C. Jacinto and H. Vaz -- Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) as a model for accessing ergonomic risk / E.F. dos Santos, K.B. de Oliveira and A.S. de Carvalho -- Risk evaluation in the transporation of...

In this paper we consider the programming of job rotation in the assembly line worker assignment and balancing problem. The motivation for this study comes from the designing of assembly lines in sheltered work centers for the disabled, where workers have different task execution times. In this...