Risk Assessment for Musculoskeletal Disorders in Forestry: A Comparison between RULA and REBA in the Manual Feeding of a Wood-Chipper

Cremasco, Margherita Micheletti; Giustetto, Ambra; Caffaro, Federica; Colantoni, Andrea; Cavallo, Eugenio; Grigolato, Stefano

doi:10.3390/ijerph16050793

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“…The same conclusions were drawn in the study on chainsaw use employing the OCRA, OWAS, RNLE equation and REBA methods [64]. In 2019, REBA and RULA were compared in wood chipping activity concluding that the latter offered greater risk prevention when applying the method [46]. Likewise, in 2017, several authors [60] used REBA to assess management worker tasks.…”

Section: Forestrymentioning

confidence: 67%

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An Overview of REBA Method Applications in the World

Hita-Gutiérrez

Gómez-Galán

Díaz-Pérez

et al. 2020

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The objective of this work is to review literature, worldwide, in which the Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) ergonomic assessment method was applied and count the number of times that REBA was applied together with other methods and subsequent incidence. The database used was the “Web of Science—Core Collection”. Only scientific articles and bibliographic reviews were included, analysing a total of 314 documents and selecting only 91. The use of the REBA method is indicated in terms of knowledge, country, year and journal sectors. It was most used in the knowledge areas of “Manufacturing” (24.18%), “Agriculture, forestry and fishing” (21.98%) and in “Other activities” (19.78%). One of the benefits of REBA is that it evaluates different body parts: upper limbs (arm, forearm and wrist), lower extremities, trunk and neck. It is a useful method to identify the forced postures adopted by workers to thus develop improvement measures if necessary. It is concluded that REBA method use has increased over the last decade, probably due to the digitization of knowledge. It is almost always applied in combination with other methods, and its use can be a positive indicator of company sustainability.

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Section: Forestrymentioning

confidence: 67%

“…One of them, the RULA method, is also used to analyse repetitive movements (associated with REBA) [6]. Due to these considerations, some studies present a broader and more complete analysis [46,66].…”

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An Overview of REBA Method Applications in the World

Hita-Gutiérrez

Gómez-Galán

Díaz-Pérez

et al. 2020

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“…Agriculture is one of the most productive sectors with the highest rate of migrant workers in Europe [33], and it is also one of the most hazardous industries [34,35]. Migrant farmworkers are particularly exposed to safety risks, and they report a higher incidence of work-related injuries compared to native workers [20,36].…”

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Tailoring Safety Training Material to Migrant Farmworkers: An Ergonomic User-Centred Approach

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Bagagiolo

Cremasco

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Lectures are the most commonly used training method but may not be effective in communicating safety information among migrant workers because of language and cultural barriers. The comprehension of safety information is particularly urgent in highly hazardous sectors such as agriculture, which has a high migrant workforce rate. In this study, an ergonomic user-centred approach was adopted to develop and evaluate safety training material targeting migrants employed on Italian farms. Focus groups with both trainers and migrants were carried out to collect information on critical issues in traditional training material, the most and least comprehended topics and suggestions for training improvement. Based on the focus group analysis, the training material was developed considering several visual factors and more engaging interaction between trainers and migrant trainees. The usability of the developed material was then evaluated in a group of 20 migrant farmworkers through a questionnaire assessing the knowledge of safety information before (T0) and after (T1) the training (effectiveness), perceived effort in learning (efficiency) and user satisfaction after training. The results showed improved knowledge, low perceived effort and high satisfaction, pointing to the positive effects of active user involvement when designing targeted training materials.

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“…Based on the results of the first stage, all maintenance operations in the workshop with the highest GDI were recorded on video. To identify serious situations, each task was divided into subtasks as indicated in a previous study (Cremasco et al, 2019).…”

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“…It has a score ranging between 0 and 1 and a letter code corresponding to a specific color, to indicate the operator's level of risk, as summarized in Table 5. This ergonomics tool has been adopted by some authors, including Cremasco et al (2019), who conducted a study on MSD risk assessment in forests. The NSC used to evaluate the MSDs and once again showed a correspondence between the RULA and REBA scores.…”

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Ergonomics risk assessment among maintenance operators in a Tunisian railway company: A case study

Sebti

Boulila

Hamza

2019

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Railway truck maintenance plays a crucial role for rail transport. It aims at ensuring the availability of the equipment and the safety of the operations. However, maintenance activities often involve uncommon work and nonroutine tasks and it is obvious that maintenance operators are more threatened than other employees to be exposed to various hazards in their workplace. In Tunisia, the prevalence of occupational accidents and injuries among maintenance workers is not well documented. The target of this cross‐sectional study is to assess ergonomics risks associated with maintenance activities in a railway company. Data collection was carried out through a self‐administrated questionnaire and via direct observations. The Body Parts Symptom Survey (BPSS) was used to identify the discomfort level of the workers. More than 100 maintenance operators working in nine different workshops were involved in this study. From BPSS results, this paper proposed a new method to calculate the discomfort index related to each body part in order to calculate the global discomfort index (GDI) for each workshop. Results showed that the most hazardous workshop was rail‐car maintenance workshop (GDI = 43.06). Four main tasks were assessed with normalized score. Final scores were found to be extremely high. To remedy the raised problems, new adjustable workstations were proposed, which showed a considerable improvement on workers’ postures.

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Risk Assessment for Musculoskeletal Disorders in Forestry: A Comparison between RULA and REBA in the Manual Feeding of a Wood-Chipper

Cited by 71 publications

References 45 publications

An Overview of REBA Method Applications in the World

An Overview of REBA Method Applications in the World

Tailoring Safety Training Material to Migrant Farmworkers: An Ergonomic User-Centred Approach

Ergonomics risk assessment among maintenance operators in a Tunisian railway company: A case study

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