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Welcome by Dan Cimmino, Newport News Shipbuilding
MR. CIMMINO: --- Newport News Shipbuilding, and I'll be the moderator and one of the speakers. I'd like to remind everybody that we have an intimate group here, but it's not a sign of how popular we are. It's just that we appeal to a more select audience. So you should all feel very privileged, and you're among the elite if you're interested in maritime ergonomics. We have some excellent speakers here. We have Chico McGill from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and also Karl Ziegfried from Bath Iron Works.
We're going to be talking about three different viewpoints of ergonomics applied in the maritime industry. I'd also like to point out, though, although the program is specific to the maritime industry, it's applicable to a lot of other non-traditional industries such as aircraft construction which is where I came from basically. A lot of the ergonomic training out there is based on assembly line type operations where you measure your production cycles in seconds and minutes. In a ship construction, your cycles are measured in months and years so it's more of a construction process. In the fixes, the way you study the jobs, the way you modify the jobs, you have to take a different approach than taught at most seminars. So I hope you'll find it interesting.
