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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Ergonomic Assessment"”.
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Traditional Posterior Load Carriage: Ergonomic Assessment and Intervention Efficacy
… Outcomes of this research can facilitate future ergonomic guidelines and interventions to improve working conditions and occupational health and safety for PLC workers.
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Exploring physiotherapist movement during patient and therapeutic handling in a laboratory setting.
… mandatory manual handling training and existing ergonomic guidance, WRMSD rates remain high, particularly in neurological rehabilitation, where hands on facilitation is frequent and complex. Current manual handling guidance is predominantly generalised across healthcare practitioners and lacks an …
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An ergonomic job analysis of a work process within a glovebox
… investigated to great lengths. Unfortunately, ergonomic design criteria for this enclosed and restricting workstation have not been extensively investigated or documented. This research evaluated ergonomic risk factors associated with the use of a glovebox in a pharmaceutical production …
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The Development of a Novel Pitching Assessment Tool
Posture based ergonomic assessment tools are widely used to evaluate posture and injury risk for many workplace/occupational tasks. To date, there is no validated equivalent that can be used to assess the posture of a pitcher during baseball pitching. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to …
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MUSCLE FATIGUE ANALYSIS IN MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY
… of freedom, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is ergonomically challenging to surgeons than traditional open surgery. Specifically, MIS can expose performing surgeons to excessive ergonomic risks including muscle fatigue that may lead to critical errors in surgical procedures. Therefore, detecting …
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LOW BACK DISODERS AMONG WASTE COLLECTION WORKERS: PREVALENCE AND RISK FACTORS
… waste collection workers and 2) to conduct an ergonomics assessment among workers in a Canadian formal recycling sector. Methods Objective 1: A comprehensive search was conducted in three databases with search term categories “low back disorders” and “waste collection workers”. Two reviewers …
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Biomechanical evaluation of user fatigue during burring with the MAKO RIO surgical system
… users of the MAKO RIO system is an issue. An ergonomic assessment of the MAKO RIO was carried out to review possible causes of the complaint of discomfort and fatigue. A clinical trial was observed and assessed for typical use of the system. This assessment culminated in a time analysis review …
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A framework for estimating difficulty and exclusion from tasks of everyday living
… development involved an exploration of how Ergonomic Assessment Methods (EAMs) and Rehabilitation Assessment Methods (RAMs) could be applied from different contexts of use to explain performance achieved and difficulty experienced for the current research which provided a profound insight …
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Cyber-physical systems to monitor the efficiency and sustainability of human-centric manufacturing systems
… during task executions. To achieve this purpose, ergonomic indices are largely adopted to mitigate work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the workforce. The European Assembly Worksheet screening tool is the most complete one focusing on several parameters ranging from working postures to …
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Advancing Human Performance Models for Enhancing Safety in Process Industry
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Evaluación comparativa de factores de preferencia uso de una herramienta de corte para floricultura con un nuevo diseño, versus la herramienta tradicional, estudio piloto
Colombia es uno de los principales productores de flores y rosas a nivel mundial y a través de los años ha presentado diversos problemas en la actividad industrial que permite la recolección de rosas. La cosecha y alistamiento del producto se realiza mediante actividades principalmente manuales. El …