Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) is damage to the musculoskeletal system that accumulates and causes abnormalities due repeated trauma, causing complaints of pain in muscles. Ergonomics has an important role preventing MSDs. Employee work activities at CV. Rempah Sari industrial company engaged cinnamon bark. Workers feel on upper neck, lower left shoulder, right back, arm, waist, hips knee. Th...

An aim of ergonomics is to design workplaces, systems, products, and tools, to accommodate human variability. Paradoxically however, conventional analytic techniques focus on average behaviour. This paper illustrates the importance of considering individual differences in movement kinematics through an examination of the wrist postures adopted during the use of two different pointing devices. A...

The Gender and Work Technical Committee (TC) of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) is responsible for this issue of the journal WORK. Since many of the authors come from the scholarly tradition of ergonomic analysis of work activity, we should explain that, in this context, the word “regulation” refers to the attempts made byworkers andworkers’ groups to manage job requirements and ...

Participatory ergonomics is an intervention strategy acting on physical load exposures occurring in occupational settings, scarcely known in Spain but with a number of experiences and evidences coming from other countries. There are several reasons justifying the interest of this approach. First, participatory ergonomics focuses on one of the categories of occupational exposures with the larges...

BACKGROUND Occupational sedentary behaviour is an important contributor to overall sedentary risk. There is limited evidence for effective workplace interventions to reduce occupational sedentary time and increase light activity during work hours. The purpose of the study was to determine if participatory workplace interventions could reduce total sedentary time, sustained sedentary time (bouts...

Musculoskeletal disorders lead to pain and suffering and result in high costs to industry. There is evidence to suggest that whereas conventional ergonomics training programs result in knowledge gains, they may not necessarily translate to changes in behavior. There were 11 participants in an ergonomics training program, and a subsample of participants received a motivational intervention in th...

BACKGROUND One of the preventive strategies for chronic low back pain among operating room nurses is instructing proper body mechanics and postural behavior, for which the use of the Transtheoretical Model (TTM) has been recommended. METHODS Eighty two nurses who were in the contemplation and preparation stages for adopting correct body posture were randomly selected (control group = 40, inte...

The author is a partner with the Washington, D.C., office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. He practices in the area of labor and employment law and has handled numerous matters involving ergonomics. In November 1999 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed an ambitious “ergonomics” rule that would regulate the pace of work in American businesses, the level of staffing, rest per...

A participative ergonomics approach to reducing injuries associated with manual tasks is widely promoted; however only limited evidence from uncontrolled trials has been available to support the efficacy of such an approach. This paper reports on a randomized and controlled trial of PErforM, a participative ergonomics intervention designed to reduce the risks of injury associated with manual ta...