Management Of Family Resources

Lesson 44 : Management Of Energy Applied To Work Place Design

Guidelines For Better Storage

1.Sort Items to Be Stored According to the Function of the Center.
2. Store unlike Items One Row Deep and One Layer Deep.
3. Stack Only Those Items Having the Same Dimensions.
4. Provide Sufficient Clearance for Grasping and Replacing Items.
5. Place Frequently Used, Heavy Items within Normal Reach.
6. Organize Items within the Storage Space to Reduce the Search and Facilitate the Flow of Motions.

Appliances:

The design of the appliance, a third part of many centers, should be analyzed to determine the effect on the content of the work as well as the effect on the worker's input. Identify ways in which the design of the appliance affects the content of the job with respect to the type of action. The type and amount of physical action is also affected by the appliance design. The design of controls and their placement also play an important part in the amount of attention needed to use them. A careful analysis will be needed to determine how well the worker’s abilities and limitations have been taken into account. The coordination of appliance design and the worker's physical inputs is a vital key to functional design of appliances. Directives already presented for work surface and storage design are appropriately applied to equivalents of using work levels and storage facilities in appliances

Space Allowances for Working:

How much space should be allowed for the person to permit satisfac­tory performance of various activities? This and the related questions of space allowances for more than one worker and for passageways are relevant to the concept of functional arrangement of centers and work­places. Cramped positions contribute to dissatisfaction with the working situation, dislike of the activity, and less effective performance of the task. Inadequate space for another person to walk past a worker or a workplace, through a hallway, or for one to go up and down stairs with a load requires restricted movement and extra attention to one's move­ment and positions

Three questions must be answered if adequate space is allowed for working: What is the basic position? What is the basic movement or elemental activity? Is additional space needed for part of an appliance or storage facility? The worker's basic position may be to stand, sit, walk, bend, squat, or kneel. The elemental activity may be to reach, carry, push; open doors, drawers; operate appliance; manipulate equip­ment, tools; arrange various items such as sheets, towels, supplies. A part of an appliance, storage facility, or furniture, such as a door or drawer, requires a certain amount of space when opened; space for this structural facility must be provided in addition to space for the person's basic position and activity.