Analysis of Postural Load During Tasks Related to Milking Cows—A Case Study

Abstract

postural load milking cows case study

Risk Factors for Developing Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders during Dairy Farming

“…12 There is a need to identify and assess the posture loads required for tasks to design effective and targeted ergonomic interventions. 13,14 Our review of previous literature indicated that the majority of ergonomic risk assessments of postural load in the dairy farming sector has focused on milking tasks 12,15-17 and other dairy farming tasks such as feeding and manure disposal have been less considered.…”

Musculoskeletal disorders: OWAS review

“… 3.1.5.2 118 ) Finland 2005 Application of the OWAS and measurement of other parameters for workers in stanchions and in free-ranging dairy cows. 3.1.5.2 119 ) Poland 2011 Application of the OWAS in dairy farmers. 3.1.5.2 112 ) Brazil 2012 Application of the OWAS workers producing charcoal.…”

“…The images showed that most of the tasks required strained postures for the back. Several authors 119 ) also analysed two dairymen during the milking of cows. The manual transport of the milk and a mechanized system were evaluated.…”

Knowledge-based ergonomic assessment of working conditions in surgical ward – A case study

“…The research with using OWAS method were conducted inter alia in: chemical industry (Väyrynen et al, 1994) in particular by fibre spinning, paying additionally attention to the mode of conducting the research, which were based on the monitoring of employees by video cameras (Vedder, 1998); agricultural industry for the analysis of body postures of stoctworker by operating in perchery system (Scott and Lambe, 1996), on the farms by milking, cow brushing or silage handling (Groborz et al, 2011;Nevala-Puranen, 1995;NevalaPuranen et al, 1996;Perkiö-Mäkelä and Hentilä, 2005); in storage industry by operating forklift truck (Hoy et al, 2005); building industry by two types suspended scaffolds: light and heavy (Saurin and de Macedo Guimarães, 2008), etc.…”