Risk Assessment and Management of Repetitive Movements and      Exertions of Upper Limbs : Job Analysis, Ocra Risk Indicies, Prevention Strategies and Design Principles - A Grieco

Risk Assessment and Management of Repetitive Movements and Exertions of Upper Limbs

Job Analysis, Ocra Risk Indicies, Prevention Strategies and Design Principles

By: A Grieco

Hardcover | 23 April 2002

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In industrialized countries, musculo-skeletrical disorders of the upper limbs represent one of the commonest work-related diseases. Several studies have proven their occupational nature, showing how such disorders appear frequently in certain categories of workers, and identifying the principal risk factors that determine them. All working activities habitually requiring repetitive upper limb movements and exertions represent a potential risk for these disorders, under certain conditions. Estimates say that about one third of the official European work force habitually carry out repetitive manual tasks. The problem is how to assess and, consequently, manage this risk in conformity with European Union Legislation covering the safety and protection of workers' health? This practical manual supplies a clear and detailed solution to this problem. The methods it proposes for analyzing and designing or redesigning jobs and tasks do not require sophisticated equipment and are largely based on situations encountered in large manufacturing factories. Since risk analysis also concerns how jobs and tasks are organized, many concepts and terms are defined that prevention experts can share with those responsible for planning and organizing manufacturing activities on the shop floor. The practical criteria and methods contained in this manual will help prevention experts, production engineers and planners and job safety representatives speak a common language as they share in dealing with this "emerging" work-related risk.

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