... Introduction Ergonomics practice involves the identification, and control, of risk factors resulting from physically demanding work, including repetitive motions, forceful exertions, and awkward postures. However, most traditional tools available for identifying these risk factors are limited...

... Introduction Publicly available (non-copyrighted) and proven ergonomic risk assessments are a rare find. In the past, companies have been faced with spending large sums of money on consulting firm's copyrighted risk assessments, or ergonomic risk assessments that focus primarily on posture...

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... Introduction Dr. Jerome Congleton has many years of experience working in Ergonomics, including eight years of work for ALCOA, his current work for Neutral Posture, Inc. as a research and development consultant and his current teaching position for the Texas A&M University System Health...

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... body posture. The idea with appropriate lifting techniques is to utilize the power zone by pushing, pulling and sliding rather than lifting, lowering, and carrying. It is important to remember that using appropriate techniques either by push, pull or slide within the power zone; a worker is reducing...

... towards workers by management. Ergonomics Principles to Reduce Risk of Injury or Re-injury We try to control the primary risk factors of prolonged, awkward or static posture, repetition without adequate rest periods, force sustained beyond minimum effort, contact stress which compromises circulation...

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... the following bodily changes and functions begin to occur: Loss of strength Loss of muscular flexibility Loss of joint range of motion Diminished postural steadiness Reduced grip strength Reduced blood flow and tactile feedback Reduced visual capacity Slowing of our mental processing Strength...

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... of a body motion), or extreme static muscle contraction (giving a maximum strength effort). Numerous studies have identified the range of safe lifting forces for various kinds of lifting tasks (Mital et al) 2. Posture. Posture has several effects. As a person reaches horizontally away from the body...

... Introduction Static-seated postures have long been an issue of concern in office environments. The topic has been sliced and diced again and again by a long array of authors. The consistent outcome of these discussions has been to place the individual worker into a reasonably up-right, neutral...