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responsible management of employees and its influence on already set up or
planned set up working conditions. Second area includes aspects of technics and
technology impact on conditions and quality of employees work. Whereas the last
area takes into consideration need of defining and set up of work places, optimal
not only with regard to employee abilities and limitations but also with reference
to environmental politics and influence of human activities on ecosystem.
Ergonomic program of sustainable development needs application of risk anal-
ysis and proper evaluation methods of effect with regard to health, costs, and ben-
efits due to its implementation (Markova et al. 2012 ).
On one side activities in range of working conditions improvement result in
advantages that refer to company image outside. On the other side (what is more
important) through frequent influence on increase of work productivity and quality
level of processes in company, that actions increate occupational/task motivation
within employees (Zwetsloot and Starren 2004 ). Attention to working conditions
is undoubtedly one of key aspects in reaching high output performed by single
employee, groups of employees as also whole organization.
2 Ergonomics as Significant Factor of Sustainable
Production
Better and better possibilities of basic nutritional, medicinal as also developmen-
tal needs satisfying, that means continuous aspiration to improve employees life
conditions should determine main goals for development of companies based on
knowledge and treating employees as precious source. To realize that assumption
companies needs to keep human as key object in human-machine-environment sys-
tem. This depiction constitute basis of microergonomics. In many-objected depiction,
interpreted as a system, in macroergonomics scope, internal structure of dependent
objects of technical system, internal relations between object, as also dependency on
external environment are taken into consideration (Jasiak and Misztal 2004 ).
Each company can gain benefits from activities due to working conditions
improvement within confines of sustainable development. Practice shows that
even primary improvement result in productivity, efficiency, competitiveness and
employee motivation increase (Wachowiak and Kujawi´ska 2014 ). Optimal work-
ing system design and relations between particular components should assure
capacity maintenance in conditions that enable to employee widely develop (intel-
lectual, psychological and social) as also that results in sustainable development of
all processes related to job.
Awareness of benefits that follows from ergonomics application in industry
is rather common. Many authors present results in the field of applied ergonom-
ics. Hamrol and Kowalik ( 2006 ) examine and determine influence of selected
environmental factors on quality of electrical wiring for cars manual assembly.
Battini et al. ( 2011 ) confirmed impact of ergonomics on assembly processes out-
put. Helander and Burri ( 1995 ) measured viability of ergonomics and quality