We started December with our second celebrity guest post.
Karen Burke is the founder of Kare Products, an ergonomics products and
services company. She has a lot of
insightful ideas on the intersection of I/O psychology and ergonomics.
The three organic posts (well, still curated, but by me :-))
were all on practical topics.
Concussions are a huge problem in sports, especially for younger players
whose brains are still developing.
Emergency eye washes and showers are critical if you work around dust,
particles, chemicals that can splash, hazardous materials, or anything else you
need to get off of you quickly. The post
on violin teaching may not seem as practical, but the general ideas about the
origins of design standards should be relevant to many of you.
I also want to mention that there was an incredibly vibrant discussion on the IEA
Linked In group on a post on breaking rules. This original is on another this
blog rather than EID, but very relevant to EID.
We have a debate going about if we want to teach students that rules are
set by humans, are fallible, should be questioned always, stretched often,
broken occasionally. Or do we want to
teach students that rules are important social structures, so should be complied
with by default, questioned only when needed, and broken only as a last resort.
