Development of the Ergonomic Activity Sampling (EAS) Method  to Analyse Video - Documented Work Processes with Activity  Sampling

Landau, Kurt

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“…For six patient transfers, the Ergonomic Analysis System (EAS) was used on video footage. The methodology is described in Landau, et al [13]. The EAS contains 27 items for the analysis of • postures and body movements • Static and dynamic action forces • load handling Body postures and movements can be analyzed threedimensionally, taking into account upper torso inclination, upper body torsion and arm reaches.…”

Section: Posture and Use Of Force In Transfer Of Patients In Persistementioning

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Workload Analysis and Ergonomic Design of Nursing Tasks when Caring for Chronically Sick Patients

Landau¹

2019

EOIJ

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Nurses in the hospital and home are usually exposed to high psycho-physical stress. In this review, we address lumbar spine hazards that result from the use of forced posture, lifting and carrying, or the use of force to transfer patients. Our remarks refer to transfer procedures to patients in persistent vegetative state , to patients with paraplegia and to patients after transplantation. It is therefore in all cases to care for the most vulnerable. Based on video studies, body posture analyzes and biomechanical calculations, transfers to two hospital wards with a total of 71 patients were examined. More than half of the nurses make four transfers per shift or more. The transfers are made alone or in pairs. Partly they work according to kinesthetic principles. Aids, such as lifters, sliding mats, roll boards, etc. are only used occasionally. The compression forces at L4 / L5 calculated using the 3DSSPP University of Michigan software ranged from 2810 N to 6279 N, well above the recommended limits (not only) for women. Multi-moment posture analyzes in a 509 case study focused on standing-stooped and standing-strongly stooped postures, which in many cases were coupled with lateral upper body tilt, upper body torsion, and work in the arm's reach margins.

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Section: Posture and Use Of Force In Transfer Of Patients In Persistementioning

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Workload Analysis and Ergonomic Design of Nursing Tasks when Caring for Chronically Sick Patients

Landau¹

2019

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“…Preventing musculoskeletal disorders requires eliminating or, at least, reducing the workers exposure to work physical risk factors [1,2]. To determine the degree of exposure to musculoskeletal risk factors and prioritize the required ergonomic interventions, they should be systematically analyzed [3]. During past decades, many tools have been developed to evaluate musculoskeletal risk factors [4,5].…”

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Comparing the Results of Three Ergonomic Assessment Tools

Etemadinezhad¹

2018

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The outcome of an ergonomic assessment underlies and is followed by the decisions on where and when an intervention is required; therefore, selecting a suitable method indirectly affects the effectiveness of an ergonomics program. Currently, available ergonomics assessment tools vary over a wide range, some of which can be interchangeably used for similar purposes. This could make the practitioners confuse to choose the most appropriate tool. QEC, ManTRA and MFA are of those methods having to do with routine manual tasks which their distinctions have never been drawn. The objective of this study was to compare the results of these three ergonomics methods to determine their agreements with one another and correlations with workers' musculoskeletal discomforts. The tools were applied to 350 manual tasks by several ergonomics experts, as was the Cornel Musculoskeletal Questionnaire to the workers working on those tasks. The outputs of the three methods were compared with one another as well as with the workers' musculoskeletal discomforts rate. Of the methods, MFA evaluated the tasks as at risk in more moderate way than the other methods and had the most correlation with the workers' musculoskeletal discomforts. ManTRA was also found as the most lenient approach which tended to ignore some risky tasks of the work systems. In contrast, QEC was the strictest of the three and would classify a task as high/very high risk more than the other tools in this study.

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Raja¹,

Mathews²,

Abraham³

2020

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

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Development of the Ergonomic Activity Sampling (EAS) Method to Analyse Video - Documented Work Processes with Activity Sampling

Cited by 3 publications

References 18 publications

Workload Analysis and Ergonomic Design of Nursing Tasks when Caring for Chronically Sick Patients

Workload Analysis and Ergonomic Design of Nursing Tasks when Caring for Chronically Sick Patients

Comparing the Results of Three Ergonomic Assessment Tools

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