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

在工作场所受伤和生病是司空见惯的。41%的此类事故可归因于肌肉骨骼损伤（去年仅英国就有498，000起），并导致英国物流，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，就分别花费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故：* 最常见的技术是在课堂环境中进行手动处理培训，不幸的是，这往往很快就被遗忘。*一对一的指导更有效，但非常昂贵。任务重新设计/分析是昂贵的，繁琐的，不受员工欢迎。运动跟踪器也可用于记录运动，但通常被认为是突兀的，并在短时间内变得令人恼火。Soter Analytics的创始人在采矿业有经验，他指出，专业工程设备得到了专门的照顾和关注;定期维护和监控确保了最佳性能，产量和寿命。他还注意到，雇员没有得到这种照顾。因此，提出了一种创新的解决方案，以应用基于“劳动力肌肉骨骼可靠性”原则的整体模型。SoterSpine运动学跟踪器是人体运动分析的核心，该系统旨在对工作场所的健康、福祉和生产力进行主动而非被动的行为改变。目前，还没有解决方案能够持续监控员工，从而影响他们的行为并预测/降低受伤的可能性。该项目旨在克服这些障碍，并解决劳动力的任何负面看法和拒绝。已根据以下目标制定了一系列工作包：**1\.**研究未定义的运动 **2\.**重新设计和开发硬件，以实现持续运行、易用性和增强体验。** 3.**研究和解决用户对系统的看法 **4\.**预测性诊断损伤 **5\.**提高生产力/产出由于上述原因，企业将看到他们的生产力和产出的提高与劳动力，提高了身心健康。员工保留水平将提高，上述损失的工作日和相关业务成本将下降-我们的合作伙伴在案例研究中已经看到了55%的下降。

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.