İş ortamının ergonomik açıdan yetersiz olmasının sonucu olarak, çalışanların kas iskelet sistemi rahatsızlıklarına yakalanma olasılığı artmaktadır. Kas rahatsızlıkları meslek hastalıklarının önemli bir bölümünü oluşturur. defa ortaya çıktıktan sonra tedavisi oldukça zaman alıcı ve masraflıdır; ayrıca çalışanın devamsızlığına yol açar. Dolayısıyla, işletmelerin insan kaynağını verimli şekilde ku...

The growing number of musculoskeletal disorders in industry could be addressed by the use of collaborative robots, which allow the joint manipulation of objects by both a robot and a person. However the efficiency of a collaborative robot regarding the reduction of musculoskeletal disorders risks is highly task-dependent. Yet, even when designing dedicated systems, the ergonomic benefit provide...

Several companies have developed their own company-specific models for ergonomic improvements. This study aims to describe and identify factors supporting and hindering the implementation and application of one such corporate model for ergonomic assessment and improvement. The model has been developed by Volvo Car Corporation and implemented at an assembly plant in Göteborg, Sweden. The model i...

The growing number of musculoskeletal disorders in industry could be addressed by the use of collaborative robots, which allow the joint manipulation of objects by both a robot and a person. Designing these robots requires to assess the ergonomic benefit they offer. Current methods use a posteriori assessment, i.e. observation of a worker performing the task, and require a physical mock-up of t...

Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) systems are often chosen to improve ergonomics in manual tasks. There many metrics available quantify the ergonomic benefits when implementing a HRC. It is important understand which (ergonomic methods, tests, questionnaires) being used by researchers terms of physical and mental workloads assessment. Therefore, aim this work was review literature on subject prov...

Background: Healthcare workers’ work performance is an important issue affected by the clinical work environment and equipment. The present study aims to predict healthcare workers’ work performance based on safety-ergonomic features of hands and medical gloves. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on healthcare workers at the hospitals of Shiraz University of Medica...

background: musculoskeletal symptoms are the main cause of loss of working time, and increase in labor costs. poor posture is the most important risk factor for work-related musculoskeletal symptoms. this study aimed at evaluating the role of ergonomic risk factors in different surgical (open surgery, laparoscopy, and microsurgery) in the frequency or resonance frequency of musculoskeletal symp...

BACKGROUND During the last decades, to assess the risk factors of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs), enormous observational methods have been developed. Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) and Quick Exposure Check (QEC) are two general methods in this field. This study aimed to compare ergonomic risk assessment outputs from QEC and REBA in terms of agreement in distribution of post...