Ergonomic guidelines for the workplace design in assembly tasks
conference paper
Musculoskeletal problems in the shoulder and neck region are a common problem among assembly workers. It is often suggested that these problems are related with repetitive arm motions or sustained working postures, causing local muscular fatigue. Precision manual assembly is characterized by elevated arms and/or a bent head, because of the manual and visual task demands. To prevent musculoskeletal disorders the working posture should be optimized and discomfort minimized. Therefore ergonomic guidelines are needed to enable adjustments of the workplace to the specific demands of the task. Such guidelines have been developed already for various visual-manual operations, like sewing and VDU-work. In this paper an experimental study is presented in which the effect was studied of working height and a tilted work surface on different subjective measures ofphysical load. Earlier studies have indicated that the subjective measures used here are generally supported by an objective measure, i.e. postural registrations. From the results of this study guidelines were formulated for work place design of precision manual assembly tasks.
Topics
TNO Identifier
646051
ISSN
0346-7821
ISBN
91-7045-169-9
Publisher
Arbetsmiljöinstitutet
Source title
International scientific conference on prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders PREMUS: book of abstracts
Editor(s)
Hagberg, M.
Kilbom, A.
Kilbom, A.
Collation
348 p.
Place of publication
Solna
Pages
73-75
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