Design

Ergonomics, Usability, Resilience, Safety and Health:
Contribution to Design of Control Room/Centres
 
Micro Ergonomics 

  • Work surfaces and rest and support surfaces
  • Furniture and interiors, incl. storage areas  
  • Displays (not only VDUs!)
  • Controls (not only keyboards)
  • Instructional Design
  • Workplace environment,  lightings, climate, ventilation & local acoustics

Macro Ergonomics

  • Room and building layouts and functional design
  • “Town planning” – the milieu of the building and its surrounding 
  • Organization behavior and design (OB &OD), incl. job design (incl. functional flows and allocation of functions)
  • Process of on-the-job learning & training, incl. simulation training and building mental (process) models and tacit knowledge
  • Process development and innovations, incl. use of simulations
  • Management processes and training (e.g. high ceiling concepts, creativity and innovations)

Environmental Ergonomics

  • Visual environment design, incl lighting, natural light, luminance distributions, reflections and glare.
  • General acoustics and vibrations, incl. floating floors, resonance and reverberations (eg walls and equipments), echo-attenuation (e.g. use of absorbents, etc)
  • Thermal environment, incl. radiation effect of cold and hot walls/spots, air movements, relative humidity, related to effects of clothing and body position. Incorporate Fanger index   
  • Ventilation: push-poll, segmentation, low speed-high volume, do not work against natural thermal flows
  • High filter technology, clean air (for people and IT).

Management, Organisation and Training  Design
Restructuring of control centres – a place for creativity and innovations.
Also a workplace for decision making by top executives and senior experts  
 
Process of Change and Design

  • Project management
  • Participative design
  • Action Research  
  • “System ergonomics” design & allocation of functions



ISO International Standards for
Ergonomic design of control centres
ISO 11064-1:2000 Part 1: Principles for the design of control centres
ISO 11064-2:2000 Part 2: Principles for the arrangement of control suites
ISO 11064-3:1999 Part 3: Control room layout
ISO 11064-3:1999/Cor 1:2002
ISO 11064-4:2004 Part 4: Layout and dimensions of workstations
ISO 11064-5:2008 Part 5: Displays and controls
ISO 11064-6:2005 Part 6: Environmental requirements for control centres
ISO 11064-7:2006 Part 7: Principles for the evaluation of control centres