Comparison of Ergonomic Risk Assessment Output in Four Sawmill Jobs
Comparison of Ergonomic Risk Assessment Output in Four Sawmill Jobs
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DOI:
10.1080/10803548.2010.11076834
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发表时间:
2010-01-01
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Kumar, Shrawan
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作者:
Jones, Troy;Kumar, Shrawan
The objectives of this study were to examine the agreement between 5 ergonomic rick assessment methods calculated on the basis of quantitative exposure measures and to examine the ability of the methods to correctly classify 4 at risk jobs Surface electromyography mid electrogomometry were toed to record the exposures of 87 sawmill workers performing 4 repetitive jobs Five ergonomic risk assessment tools (rapid upper limb assessment [RULA]. rapid enure body assessment [REBA], American conference of governmental industrial hygienist's threshold limit value for,, mono-task hand work [ACGIH T:V], strain [SI]. and concise exposure index [OCRA]) were calculated Dichotomization of risk to no risk and at risk resulted in high agreement between methods Percentage of perfect agreement between methods when 3 levels of risk were considered was moderate and varied by job. Of the methods examined. the RULA and SI were best (correct classification rates of 99 and 97% respectively) The quantitative ACGIH-TLV for mono-task hand work and Borg scale were worst (misclassification rates 486 and 28% respectively)