Abstract
Factors in design and application of an ergonomic checklist for ergonomic appraisal of industrial jobs and workplaces are discussed. The types of such checklists are diversified according to differences in areas covered, patterns of setting questions and perspectives underlying the checking procedures. Results of field surveys in which newly desigined checklists were applied to air traffic controllers' consoles, agricultural machines and foundry workshops show that a corrective checklist would be more useful than an analytical one and that check results are dependent upon the checkers' knowledge and check strategies. A good checklist should thus be a flexible list that helps the user extract covert problems of the work system in question.
