The paper gives fundamental principles of new approach to ergonomic aspects in the Total Quality Management of enterprises. This approach concerns total look at ergonomic problems of enterprises. These problems regard following issues: human-being – machine – environment system, the role of ergonomics in the quality assurance system, ergonomic aspects of product, ergonomic aspects of human-being, workstation, environment, organization of work, the influence of occupational safety on quality. These problems have been presented in the paper. The role of each of them in the assurance of “Quality of Life” has been discussed.
