Lean Management Systems (LMS) have become very popular among the manufacturing
industry, services and large commercial areas. A LMS must develop and consider a set
of work energizers to bring compatibility with workplace ergonomics, namely at a
muscular, cognitive, and emotional demands level. The goal of this study is the
identification of the most relevant impacts of a LMS adoption from the ergonomic point
of view and cited in the literature and the synthesis of some possible drawbacks in
workplace ergonomics due to a flawed application of the LMS. A final discussion about
the most important, positive and negative, impacts are present at the end of the paper
