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Data shows that workers with disabilities are still lagging in employment rates compared to healthy workforce. They report high job insecurity, are less likely to receive employer-based benefits, are more likely to be laid off and are also more likely to work in part-time jobs. Since many companies do not employ ergonomists, employers have a problem to identify a suitable workplace, yet alone to propose the needed accommodations. To mitigate these problems, we developed a decision support system that aids in the whole process of categorizing and identifying disabilities of workers and assigns a suitable workplace in an integrated work environment inside the company to ensure high safety, productivity and satisfaction of workers and employers.
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The authors acknowledge the project (Development of a computational human hand model for ergonomic product design, Project ID: Z2-8185) was financially supported by the Slovenian Research Agency.
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Harih, G., Vujica-Herzog, N. (2020). Towards an Expert System for Assigning Optimal Workplaces to Workers with Disabilities. In: Goossens, R., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Social and Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 970. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20145-6_6
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