Ergonomical Study on Manual Material Handling

Industrial safety Engineering

This paper is focused on the review of ergonomic tools and the ergonomic issues are present now. The main focuses on the ergonomic issues faced by the workers during Manual Material Handling (MMH) are explained. The studies show that the workers who had high ergonomic issues like Musculoskeletal Disorder while in Manual Handling such as lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling and any vibration generating activities. The main reason in the enhancing the ergonomic issues are due to the improper knowledge on work, less experience, careless, and awkward working posture. The studies also show that age wise and gender wise have the variation in the rate of ergonomic issues. Here we focused on the general ergonomic tools and software for accessing easily in an industry or workplace to get the ergonomic risk level in their works. The Ergonomic tools like RULA, REBA, NIOSH, SNOOK Table etc to be classified on the basis of the work task and also use NIOSH tool for the lifting purpose in an industry to find the level of risk with the help of Ergo Fellow 3.0 software, then provide necessary recommendation and instruction to the workers. The categorization of ergonomic tool will be helpful to select for particular task risk analysis and posture analysis. The project aims to do a risk analysis in lifting and lowering of the object in different sections of an industry with help of NIOSH calculator

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