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Fitting work to people to reduce injuries is the practice of ergonomics. Ergonomics looks at how people interact with their tools, machines, and workspace and aims to design tasks, equipment, and environments that fit human bodies and capabilities. By adjusting chair height, desk and monitor placement, reach distances, hand grips, and tool weights, we reduce awkward postures, repetitive strain, and fatigue, lowering injury risk and boosting comfort and productivity. The other fields focus on different aims: industrial design centers on the form and usability of products, marketing on promoting products, and statistics on analyzing data. So ergonomics is the field that directly targets reducing injuries by matching the job to the person.