Designing for Safety

For products and environments to be safe for everyone in the home, they must be designed to fit the abilities, characteristics, and expectations of everyone who may come into contact with them. Designing for Safety: Human Factors in Product Testing describes and illustrates the way in which these ergonomic principles can be applied during the design process to improve the safety of consumer products. This unique book covers the basic issues of current consumer safety, ergonomics and safety, and key methods and techniques for incorporating ergonomics into the design process. The authors present a series of case studies to illustrate these methods and set out the steps to be followed in a typical evaluation process.