background: work-related musculoskeletal disorders (wmsds) are a leading cause of disability and workers compensations. objectives: the research was done in tehran pars-electric factory to prevent inducing wmsds. rapid entire body assessment (reba) was carried out to assess musculoskeletal loads on workers due to their postures, repetition, and force. nordic musculoskeletal questionnaire (nmq) ...

This technical note details the preliminary stage in the development of a postural analysis tool, Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA). REBA has been developed to fill a perceived need for a practitioner's field tool, specifically designed to be sensitive to the type of unpredictable working postures found in health care and other service industries. A team of ergonomists, physiotherapists, occu...

Introduction: Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are most important work-related injuries and debilities in developed and developing industrial countries. In the recent years, the rate of injuries and MSDs in car montage industries compared with other industries was so more. Therefore, the purpose of present study was focused on ergonomic assessment of sina car montage industry employees’ workin...

background: the aim of this paper was the comparison of ergonomic risk assessment results (final score and action levels) for the entire body as determined using quick exposure check (qec) and rapid entire body assessment (reba).  materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study in which all 82 workers engaged in various processes with different activities in an anodizing and aluminum pr...

 Background: The aim of this paper was the comparison of ergonomic risk assessment results (final score and action levels) for the entire body as determined using Quick Exposure Check (QEC) and Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA).  Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study in which all 82 workers engaged in various processes with different activities in an anodizing a...