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Observing working postures in industry: Examples of OWAS application

✍ Scribed by Osmo Karhu; Reino Härkönen; Pentti Sorvali; Pentti Vepsäläinen

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1981
Tongue
English
Weight
364 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-6870

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✦ Synopsis

A practical method for identifying and evaluating poor working postures, ie the Ovako Working Posture Analysing System (OWAS), was presented in an earlier paper (Karhu et al, 1977). The application of the method is here described by means of two examples. One is a case study undertaken by members of an ergonomics training course, in which a marked improvement in working posture was achieved by OWAS analysis of critical activities. The second illustrates the effect of setting up a multidisciplinary group in order to develop an alternative method for the installation and maintenance of steel mill equipment. In both examples, application of the OWAS method led to improved posture in the situations studied, and to the likelihood of its wider industrial use.

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