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here’s an ad in a bus stop near you currently that promises ‘our beer is ergonomically designed to fit every beer glass’… or words to that effect. Yes, very amusing. But while we’re chuckling at that, it is a reminder that even today, 70 years* after the term was first coined, there are still many, many people who don’t really understand what ergonomics is. And many more who have no idea what an ergonomist does. To address this perhaps it may be helpful to explain a little of my own

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