Designing and evaluating jobs and workers is easier when there is accurate and precise job documentation available. A web-based job information system has been developed to provide job documentation (including detailed task analyses), quantitative ergonomic ratings, and job videos. This web-based job information system can be used in many different ways such as facilitating tool design, work method analysis, job accommodation, return-to-work decisions, and justification of ergonomic evaluations. Details on how the data are being collected and the database is designed are discussed as well as numerous examples of how jobs in the database can be used by ergonomists and human factors professionals.
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