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Measurement of Work-Related Physical Workloads - Proposal for a Body Region-Related Categorization System

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Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021) (IEA 2021)

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In this article a proposal for categorization of measurement systems for recording and assessing of work-related musculoskeletal workloads and disorders (MSD) for body region-related risk assessments is presented. It consists of three categories according to the different user groups: operational practitioner (Cat 1), ergonomic expert (Cat 2) and scientist (Cat 3). Principal characteristics of measuring systems in the categories 1, 2 and 3 are derived from common measurement setups and application cases. For the body regions upper extremities, spine, lower extremities implementations for the associated risk factors, measurement technique and parameters as well as assessment approaches are presented.

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  1. Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the German Social Accident Insurance (IFA), Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Rolf Ellegast, Britta Weber, Christoph Schiefer, Kai Heinrich & Ingo Hermanns-Truxius

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  1. Département de génie mécanique, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada

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  2. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Ellegast, R., Weber, B., Schiefer, C., Heinrich, K., Hermanns-Truxius, I. (2022). Measurement of Work-Related Physical Workloads - Proposal for a Body Region-Related Categorization System. In: Black, N.L., Neumann, W.P., Noy, I. (eds) Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021). IEA 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 223. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74614-8_16

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