Assessment tools analysis of work-related musculoskeletal disorders: strengths and limitations

Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the most common occupational diseases, affecting millions workers in European Union and costing employers billions euros. Researching relationships possibilities optimal mutual adaptation, under given conditions, both human to his work humans, order increase technical-economic efficiency, optimize conditions satisfaction, motivation results, while maintaining worker’s state health also involves, as a basic stage, assessment risks osteomuscular-articular overload. Starting from statistical synthesis on incidence MSD characteristic types demands, paper systematizes unitary vision categories methods, techniques tools available for recording evaluating factors physical postural stress workers. The pointed description three commonly applied ergonomic risk tools, aimed at developing Strengths-Weaknesses type, which highlights advantages methods counterbalance with their limitations, providing first basis selection apply them practice companies that aware investing safety means profit not losing financial resources implicitly human, material ones.