IMSE 623 Occupational Ergonomics - Work Design Lab # 2 Object Procedure 1. 2. 3. 4. Work by yourself or with one partner.

Make a work sampling (occurrence sample) study of someone or something. The person studied should not be yourself. What is the situation you are studying? What is your sampling plan? Note that continuous observation is not sampling. a. What is your estimate of the value of the mean percent? b. What is the desired absolute accuracy of the final results? c. What is the desired confidence level? d. How many observations will you need? e. How will you make the sample representative of the universe? Is the situation studied random or does it have a pattern? In most situations there is a pattern. Use the "Occurrence Sampling" program in ERGO 2.18 to generate random times for sampling. Include the printed sampling schedule as part of your report. f. How will you stratify your sample? What are your results? a. Is sequence (e.g., time of day, day of week) a factor? To help determine whether sequence is a factor, plot a control chart with: a) p, b) control limits and c) your data. Plot percentage on the y axis and sequence (time) on the x axis. Give the value of p. If a data point is beyond the limits, sequence is a factor. Note that n is not the total sample number but is the sub-group number. That is, if you have 25 observations on each of 4 days the control limits are based on n=25, not n=100. b. Now that you have some data, what is your estimate of the mean percent? c. Using the confidence level of step 4c, what is your new estimate of the accuracy level? What are your conclusions (recommendations) about the situation you studied? Make a presentation with one PowerPoint slide to the class. Teach occurrence sampling techniques

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