ELIMINATION OF ERGONOMIC HAZARDS BY IMPLEMENTING THE HIERARCHY OF CONTROL MEASURES IN WAREHOUSE LOGISTICS

Industrial Safety Engineering

Safety plays an important role in human beings’ life. Occupational health and safety become a vital part in every Industry. The background of this project is to control the ergonomic hazards in warehouse logistics by using HIRA technique. The main objective of this paper is to identify the ergonomic hazards in warehouse logistics. To assess the safety means, it needs to reduce the risk everywhere, so that Hazards Identification Risk Assessment (HIRA) can be done for the manual handling activities. To find the hazards means, then risk can be accessed from the hazards and then to analyze the severity rating for the hazards. Calculating the severity and probability of occurrence and suggesting the hazards are acceptable or not acceptable. By using HIRA techniques, we can provide various hierarchy of control measures to reduce the severity & probability level of the risk. Introducing Engineering controls, Administration controls we can reduce the ergonomic related issues in warehouse logistics. Workplace ergonomics is the science of designing the workplace, keeping in mind the capabilities and limitations of the worker. A workplace ergonomics improvement process removes risk factors that lead to musculoskeletal injuries and allows for improved human performance and productivity.

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