@article{ref1,
title="Analysis of multiple activity manual materials handling tasks using A Guide to Manual Materials Handling",
journal="Ergonomics",
year="1999",
author="Mital, A.",
volume="42",
number="1",
pages="246-257",
abstract="Manual handling of materials continues to be a hazardous activity, leading to a very significant number of severe overexertion injuries. Designing jobs that are within the physical capabilities of workers is one approach ergonomists have adopted to redress this problem. As a result, several job design procedures have been developed over the years. However, these procedures are limited to designing or evaluating only pure lifting jobs or only the lifting aspect of a materials handling job. This paper describes a general procedure that may be used to design or analyse materials handling jobs that involve several different kinds of activities (e.g. lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing, etc). The job design/analysis procedure utilizes an elemental approach (breaking the job into elements) and relies on databases provided in A Guide to Manual Materials Handling to compute associated risk factors. The use of the procedure is demonstrated with the help of two case studies.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0014-0139",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}