Following a musculoskeletal injury to a nurse caring for a patient undergoing continuous bladder irrigation procedures, a workplace project was instigated. The project aimed to provide a more in-depth assessment of the manual handling task, by using four different tools and a participatory ergonomics approach. Each MSD tool confirmed the MSD risk. An evaluation survey by the eight workers invol...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To investigate healthcare staff's views and experiences of caring for older hospitalised adults (aged 60+) with osteoporosis focusing on moving and handling. Specific objectives were to explore the composition of manual handling risk assessments and interventions in osteoporosis. BACKGROUND Osteoporosis is a skeletal disease that reduces bone density and causes increased f...

Numerous literature reviews indicate a moderate to strong association between manual material handling (MMH) and back injury. A few biomechanical studies contrasted the work techniques of female and male workers during MMH. Recently, Plamondon et al. (2014) found that one important biomechanical variable that characterized experienced females relative to male experts, during lifting of 15-kg bo...

 In this paper, we describe aspects related to learning and learning assessment including pedagogy, cognition, pilot study and results from the study. This study is conducted for an educational module on “10 Principles of Materials Handling”. This module along with another titled “Analysis and Design of Integrated Material Handling Systems” constitute a system of multimedia educational tools f...

Varieties of robotic grippers are developed with high flexibility and multi-functional approaches. In this paper, the study is an innovative approach of a gripper for handling variable size, shape and weight of unpacked food products i.e. ‘Vacuum Gripper of Robots’ which is working on Bernoulli Principle for generating a high-speed flow between the gripper plate and product surface thereby crea...

In the manufacturing line, there is a material handling system which transfers an item from one machine to other machine. One of the simplest material handling systems is RGV(Rail Guided Vehicle) system. In this system, RGV moves only backward and forward on the guided rail and it executes the job which consists of two location information; 'From location', 'To location'. When the RGV gets a jo...

PURPOSE Candidate risk factors for idiopathic rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) include heavy manual handling (requiring Valsalva's maneuver). We assessed incidence rates of surgically treated idiopathic RRD among manual workers, non-manual workers and housewives resident in Tuscany, Italy. METHODS We retrieved all hospital discharge records bearing a principal diagnosis corresponding t...

Manual handling is recognised as a major cause of work-related back injuries. Although widely implemented, manual handling training programmes appear to have had limited success in reducing these injuries. This may stem from the inadequacy of training programmes and/or their inability to accommodate variations in task, workplace, and worker. Designing training programmes based on the techniques...

BACKGROUND The human spine is often exposed to mechanical load in vocational activities especially in combination with lifting, carrying and positioning of heavy objects. This also applies in particular to nursing activities with manual patient handling. In the present study a detailed investigation on the load of the lumbar spine during manual patient handling was performed. METHODS For a to...