background: the nature of work in the construction industry is closely associated with many human factor hazards. manual construction workers are exposed to hand-arm vibration, repetitive movements, holding of heavy loads and tools, and frequent manual materials handling hazards in their daily tasks. work related musculoskeletal disorders are major problems faced by construction workers, which ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate cause-specific mortality among asbestos workers and potentially exposed workers in Belgium and evaluate potential excess in mortality due to established and suspected asbestos-related diseases. DESIGN This cohort study is based on an individual record linkage between the 1991 Belgian census and cause-specific mortality information for Flanders and Brussels (2001-2009)...

background: this study was an investigation conducted at two oil palm plantations in slim river district, perak, malaysia on the prevalence of back pain among workers in the malaysian oil palm industry. many manual handling activities and tasks performed were not designed ergonomically, thus a high prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders was found among oil palm fresh fruit bunches (ffbs) manua...

Wide spread monitoring cameras on construction sites provide large amount of information for construction management. The emerging of computer vision and machine learning technologies enables automatic recognition of construction activities from videos. As the executors of construction, the activities of construction workers have strong impact on productivity and progress. Compared to machine w...

The hypothesis that manual work and exposure to vibration are antecedents to the development of osteoarthrosis was assessed employing a cross sectional study design. The frequency of osteoarthrosis in the acromioclavicular joint was studied in three groups of workers in the construction industry. Two groups were manual workers (54 bricklayers and 55 rock blasters); the third group consisted of ...

introduction: musculoskeletal disorders are the major causes of occupational diseases in the work places and they are the most important cause of disability and absenteeism. for the prevention of these disorders and improvement of working, it is necessary to use ergonomics assessment techniques. this study aimed to assess ergonomic risk factors for musculoskeletal disorders in construction work...