A Musculoskeletal Reliability Model For Monitoring Core Body Movements Leading To Risk Evaluation In The Workplace

用于监测核心身体运动并进行工作场所风险评估的肌肉骨骼可靠性模型

• 批准号: 68124
• 金额: $ 31.38万
• 依托单位: SOTER ANALYTICS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Study
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=68124
• 关键词: Musculoskeletal; Reliability; Model; Monitoring; Core

Injuries and illness in the workplace are commonplace. 41% of such incidents can be attributed to musculoskeletal injury (498,000 in the UK alone last year), and results in 6.9m workdays being lost in the UK every year across sectors including logistics, construction, aviation and agriculture. This is a cost that has to be shouldered by the employer and, in the EU and US alone, costs $50bn and €80bn respectively.The primary form of risk management control is conducted through various types of training and assessment intended to reduce work related health incidents by identifying potential risks:* The most common technique is manual handling training in a classroom setting, unfortunately that is often quickly forgotten.* One-to-one coaching is much more effective but is very expensive.* Task redesign/profiling is costly, fiddley and not well received by the workforce.* Kinematic trackers can also be used to log movements, but are often considered obtrusive and become irritating after a short period of timeThe founder of Soter Analytics has experience in the mining industry where he noted the dedicated care and attention that was given to specialist engineering equipment; regular maintenance and monitoring ensured optimal performance, output and longevity. He also observed that such care was not given to employees. Therefore, an innovative solution has been proposed to apply an holistic model based on the principle of '_Workforce Musculoskeletal Reliability'_. The system is geared towards a proactive not reactive behavioural change in workplace health, wellbeing and productivity with the SoterSpine kinematic tracker at the heart of human movement analysis.Currently, there are no solutions able to continuously monitor a workforce with the intention of influencing their behaviour and predicting/reducing the likelihood of injury. This project intends to overcome these barriers as well as addressing any negative perceptions and rejections from the workforce. A series of work packages have been developed in line with the following goals:**1\.**Research undefined movements**2\.**Redesign and develop hardware for continuous operation, ease of use and enhanced experience.**3\.**Research and address user perceptions of the system**4\.**Predictively diagnose injury**5\.**Improve productivity/output As a result of the above, businesses will see improvements in their productivity and output with a workforce that has enhanced physical and mental health. Staff retention levels will increase and the aforementioned lost days and associated business costs will fall -- our partners in case studies have seen a 55% drop.

工作场所的受伤和疾病是司空见惯的。41%的此类事故可归因于肌肉骨骼损伤(仅去年英国就有49.8万人)，导致英国物流、建筑、航空和农业等行业每年损失690万个工作日。这是一项必须由雇主承担的成本，仅在欧盟和美国，成本分别为500亿美元和800亿欧元。风险管理控制的主要形式是通过各种类型的培训和评估进行，旨在通过识别潜在风险来减少与工作相关的健康事件：*最常见的技术是课堂上的手动操作培训，不幸的是，这往往很快就会被遗忘。*一对一辅导要有效得多，但非常昂贵。*任务重新设计/分析成本高昂，而且不受劳动力欢迎。*运动跟踪器也可以用来记录动作。但通常被认为是无礼的，过了一小段时间就会令人恼火。Soter Analytics的创始人有采矿业的经验，他注意到专业工程设备得到了专心致志的照顾和关注；定期维护和监测确保了最佳的性能、产量和寿命。他还指出，这种照顾没有给予雇员。因此，提出了一种创新的解决方案，即应用基于“劳动力肌肉骨骼可靠性”原则的整体模型。该系统旨在以SoterSpine运动学跟踪器为核心，在工作场所的健康、福祉和生产力方面进行主动而非反应性的行为变化。目前，还没有解决方案能够持续监控员工，目的是影响他们的行为并预测/减少受伤的可能性。该项目旨在克服这些障碍，并解决工作人员的任何负面看法和拒绝。已根据以下目标开发了一系列工作包：**1\.**研究未定义的运动**2\.**重新设计和开发硬件，以实现连续操作、易用性和增强的体验。**3\.**研究和解决用户对系统的看法**4\.**预测受伤**5\.**提高生产率/产出由于上述原因，企业将看到其生产力和产出的改善，因为员工的身心健康得到了改善。员工留任水平将上升，上述损失天数和相关业务成本将下降--我们的合作伙伴在案例研究中看到下降了55%。