Mechanical exposure and musculoskeletal disorder risk at the production system level: A framework and application
✍ Scribed by Silvia A. Pascual; Mardy B. Frazer; Richard Wells; Donald Cole
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 400 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1090-8471
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Intervention research to reduce musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) has usually been focused at the job level. However, to intervene in and monitor change at a production system level, an approach to assess mechanical exposure and risk at this level is needed. The first purpose of this article is to present an example of production system level risk estimates. The second purpose is to compare the impact of an intervention at the job system and the production system level. One product was tracked throughout an entire production system to quantify the “product cycle” exposure and risks experienced by the low back. The intervention described decreased the predicted production system exposures and predicted risk substantially, if adopted across all departments. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.