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Promoting ergonomics in Algeria: activities of “the research and training laboratory” in the University of Oran.
March 28, 2014 Editor 0
Promoting ergonomics in Algeria: activities of “the research and training laboratory” in the University of Oran.
Work. 2012;41 Suppl 1:584-7
Authors: Mebarki B, El-Bachir TC
Abstract
The growing need in Algeria to develop ergonomics knowledge and practice in industry was behind the initiative to develop a training and research project within the ergonomics laboratory at Oran University. Since 2005 the laboratory team is running an academic option master in work design and ergonomics. The evaluation of the academic master in 2010 revealed the acute need of the local industry for professional competences in ergonomic and work psychology. A professional training master program in “ergonomics & work psychology” was then developed in partnership with local industry, five European Universities and six Universities from three Maghreb countries. Research projects were initiated around the two training programs, in conjunction with a number of ergonomics dissemination and promotion activities. Preliminary results of the project are presented and discussed in relation to the local context, and in the light of similar cases in Industrially Developing Countries.
PMID: 22316785 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
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