ENVIRONMENTAL ERGONOMICS IS THE BASIS FOR DEVELOPING ECOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

The Internet is a major information source for the modern society. The definition of the environmental ergonomics given at the Internet: "processes and conditions research to establish and maintain comfortable conditions on production" does not correspond to the original definition of the environmental ergonomics, as a scientific discipline based on the seamlessness of ecology and ergonomics. Environmental ergonomics is a comprehensive study of anthropogenic activities environmental impacts, based on the ecological and ergonomic content. The fundamental difference between ergonomics and environmental ergonomics is that ergonomics considers and characterizes the efficiency and safety of workplaces, exactly the places where the employee performs the duties, while the objectives of the environmental ergonomics are in a comprehensive arrangement of the work place where the employee is working. The difference between the concepts of place to work and the workplace is that the place to work must be indicated while concluding an employment contract, however it is not necessary for the workplace. The process of the ecology penetration into various activity areas in the society and the development of the environmental ergonomics derive the practical ergonomics from the applied science into theoretical discipline, as it allows solving the fundamental problems of the environmental protection and environmental safety. Environmental ergonomics is not limited by the definition of sanitary control, but predestinate the environment impact of entire complex of production factors in a short and long term. And not a separate workplace with the compatibility of production specifics and the production processes define the environmental safety of the enterprise and the industry in general justified by environmental expertise. This condition gives the methodological and theoretical content and defines the environmental  ergonomics  as  a  scientific  direction.  The  social  demand  for  the environmental  engineer  profession  is  being  increased.  A  precondition  for  the environmental engineer professional activity is forming the environmental awareness, environmental thinking, environmental culture and therefore environmental worldview, which must be formed from the student’s years by making it, like a taboo by supporting it with various economical instruments. The economic profitability of the enterprise can be quite powerful opposition to the ecological worldview. The social need for the profession of an environmental engineer was necessary even at the stage of environmental problems, because inertia and stereotypes of technocratic thinking are difficult to overcome and persist for a long period. The economic profitability of the enterprise can be quite powerful opposition to the environmental worldview. The social need in a profession of the environmental engineer was long before, even at the stage of environmental problems, since the inertia and stereotypes of technocratic thinking are hard to overcome and are persisted for a long period. The problem of industrial and municipal waste, garbage dumps will grow in progress, with the increase of civilization benefits and with increasing the consumer wants. Currently, the amount of municipal waste exceeds industrial waste and continues to grow. The problem of the elimination of waste in the creation of technology and industrial technology must be considered as a priority. A deterrent factor to solve the problem of wastes and landfills are the additional economic costs, which are necessary for recycling waste and garbage; and the future generation will be grateful, if the current generation does not reach the non-return point of the wastes problem. The possibility of such a non-return point is quite real, because to stop the development of scientific and technological progress is almost an impossible task and to limit the "grasping reflex" of the modern consumer society is even a more difficult task. The existing anthropocentric and ecocentric worldviews and the representatives should look for the compromises in their contradictions for a creative  union  in solving society environmental problems, which allows acquiring the fundamental science status for the environmental ergonomics.