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Citation

Nagamachi M. Appl. Ergon. 1986; 17(1): 9-18.

Affiliation

Hiroshima University, Japan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15676565

Abstract

Japan has the largest world market share of industrial robots and also two fatal accidents due to robots. Ergonomics points of view should be applied to robotics to prevent new types of accidents. The concern of this paper is to explain Japan's situation concerning the installation of robotics and current safety regulations. Three experiments about the possibility of unsafe behaviour are described, and the man-robot system failure is analysed based on Fault Tree Analysis and the actual data. The appropriate safety measures are compared in terms of their cost-effectiveness. Finally, ergonomics points of view are provided to prevent accidents due to industrial robots.


Language: en

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