2015
DOI: 10.3233/wor-141852
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Ergonomic risk factors in bicycle repairing units at Jabalpur

Abstract: The results indicate that the different tasks in this profession are in the high risk category and demands immediate ergonomic intervention in the form of re-design of the tools used and work station or/and the design of the work process.

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“…Other authors assessed African women as they carried out two tasks related to loading bricks on their heads [106] and the load variance during pregnancy [108]. Bicycle repair [111] and marine mollusc collection [109] were also assessed using the REBA method.…”
Section: Other Activitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Other authors assessed African women as they carried out two tasks related to loading bricks on their heads [106] and the load variance during pregnancy [108]. Bicycle repair [111] and marine mollusc collection [109] were also assessed using the REBA method.…”
Section: Other Activitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In agriculture, studies concerning oil palm harvests showed that of the six working postures analysed, all required immediate ergonomic intervention (Deros et al, 2015). During bicycle repairing and fastening operations on the shop floor, RULA has been used to assess the risk of developing WMSDs (Daphalapurkar, 2012;Mukhopadhyay et al, 2015), etc. The advantages of the tool cannot be over-emphasised.…”
Section: Ergonomic Risk Assessment Toolsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It rates work postures and classifies these postures according to the degree of their impact on the muscles of workers (Kee and Karwowski, 2007). The tool has been successfully implemented in the assessment of work postures such as seen when the tool assessed the work postures of operators as they changed brake shoes of freight wagons in a railway maintenance shop floor (Singh et al, 2015) and on bicycle maintenance shop floor (Mukhopadhyay et al, 2015). Results revealed high level of postural problems and consequently, great exposure to WMSDs among the operators and the bicycle repair workers, hence the need for immediate ergonomic intervention on the maintenance workplaces.…”
Section: Ergonomic Risk Assessment Toolsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…It involved monitoring and taking photograph of operators while performing a lifting/lowering task on an auto parts shop floor as well as technicians while changing brake shoes of freight wagons at a railway maintenance. In another experiment to investigate the risk of developing WMSDs among bicycle repair workers, [12] used still photography and video photography to collect the data needed for the risk assessment. These methods, though easy to use, are time consuming, unreliable [13], and do not give the 3D information as well as accurate joint information of workers in congested workplaces.…”
Section: Literature Review Of Camera-based Data Collection For Industmentioning
confidence: 99%