Avaliação ergonômica dos pedais do posto de trabalho do operador de tratores.

Abstract

The objective of this work is of evaluating the pedals of the workstation of the tractor operator, using given anthropometrics of the Brazilian worker's profile. As object of the research, the tractors were used with medium potency of 73.550 W. a rising of the state of the art was accomplished in pertinent publications to the subject, including the historical factor of the tractor, the ergonomics and the workstation. Using the methodology of the Ergonomic Analysis of the Work (AET), an evaluation of the pedals of the workstation of the tractors was executed, being considered their differential ones ergonomic; with this selection it was possible to detect the positive and negative points. Soon afterwards, an analytical study of the pedals was executed. The results of this evaluation demonstrate that some pedals of the appraised tractors possess mistakes in relation to the ergonomics and to the data anthropometrics of the Brazilian population, being able to this work to be valuable to offer comfort to the tractor operator.