SILVA, André Luis da.; SANTOS, João Eduardo Guarnetti dos.
Résumé:
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.
