Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are one of the main causes work disability (EU-OSHA, 2019; WHO, 2019). Several solutions, including cobotic system (EUROGIP, 2017), have been put forward to improve unhealthy working conditions and prevent MSDs. We sought identify MSD risk factors workers on a screen-printed glass production line prior introduction cobot. used mixed data collection technique: vi...

Physical and psychophysical differences between working in the stooped and prone postures were compared while performing a simulated agricultural harvesting task for 30 min. Fifteen male subjects participated. The measures used to compare the two postures included perceived discomfort, electromyography (EMG), and heart rate (HR). Average hamstrings localized discomfort (0-10 scale) was 6.17 (SD...

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This review brings an overview of the Slovak regulations concerning occupational safety and health at work (OSH) primarily considering parameter physical load. In addition to regulations, this article focuses on particular requirements workplaces with increased load describes permissible values (see tables). Attention is given assessing working posture handling loads. The main purpose evaluatio...

Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) are the main work-related problems in construction sites around world. Awkward working posture is mainly responsible for occupational musculoskeletal injuries. The objectives of research were to analyse postures workers and assess level risk injury their work. Four categories collected from elementary works as a form still pictures site. Two assessment tools RUL...

musculoskeletal disorders commonly experienced by dental professionals can affect their health and well-being. the main aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among dentists in iran. a cross sectional study was carried out in rasht, northern iran. participants were dental workers who completed structured questionnaire on the topic of musculoskeletal disor...

The scoring sheet for the Infant Neurological International Battery (INFANIB) was not published in the September 1985 issue (Phys Ther 65:13261331, 1985) with the research article by Ellison et al entitled "Construction of an Infant Neurological International Battery (INFANIB) for the Assessment of Neurological Integrity in Infancy." The sheet is printed here to permit clinicians working with i...

background: nowadays, the health work decision makers need to analyze a huge amount of data and consider many conflicting evaluation criteria and sub-criteria. therefore, an ergonomic evaluation in the work environment in order to the control occupational disorders is considered as the multi criteria decision making (mcdm) problem. in this study, the ergonomic risks factors, which may influence...