TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - Analysis of multiple activity manual materials handling tasks using A Guide to Manual Materials Handling
JO  - Ergonomics
A1  - Mital, A.
SP  - 246
EP  - 257
VL  - 42
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0014-0139
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -