Effects of working posture and roof slope on activation of lower limb muscles during shingle installation

Dutta, Amrita; Breloff, Scott P.; Dai, Fei; Sinsel, Erik W.; Warren, Christopher; Carey, Robert E.; Wu, John Z.

doi:10.1080/00140139.2020.1772378

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“…In normal times, delivering safety in construction is a complex activity (Woolley et al, 2020). The nature of the work is inherently often hazardous (Haslam et al, 2005), involving manual handling (Antwi‐Afari et al, 2017; Hartmann & Fleischer, 2005; Paquet et al, 1999), working around plant, working at height or with difficult postures (Dutta et al, 2020), working with dangerous materials (Sauni et al, 2001; Snashall, 2005) or where there are hazards such as electricity (e.g., during rail maintenance or installation of overhead line electrification [Salguero‐Caparrós et al, 2019]). It is a sector where safety has reached a plateau that still accounts for a significant number of injuries, lost working days, and a fatality injury rate in Great Britain (1.31 per 100,000 workers) that is three times the all industry rate (HSE, 2019) and where evidence of effective safety interventions is scarce (van der Molen et al, 2018).…”

Section: The Construction Contextmentioning

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Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Stiles

Golightly

Ryan

2021

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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Construction has been significantly affected by COVID‐19 yet is critical to the post‐COVID economic recovery. Specifically, construction needs to be constantly aware of safety and risk balanced with timely project delivery. Guidance for COVID‐19 must therefore be implemented in a way that reflects working practice and pressures. There is, however, a potential knowledge gap regarding the practical feasibility and impact of applying COVID‐19 measures within construction, made more difficult by factors such as the temporary nature of projects and complex working arrangements. This article presents a commentary on safe construction during, and beyond, COVID‐19, covering the human factors challenges and practicalities of implementing COVID‐19 measures. We observe that while guidance is strong on risk management, understanding of how best to implement this guidance is not yet stable. Also, care must be taken that implementing guidance does not detract from general safety, which is also challenged by increased pressures on delivery arising from COVID‐19. There may, however, be opportunities for safer working practice arising from new awareness of health, hygiene, and safety risk. The role of safety leadership is overlooked in guidance yet is vital to ensure safe application of COVID‐19 working practices. The key message is that COVID‐19 needs to be integrated and promoted within a general risk management approach, in part because this takes account of differing priorities regarding safety risks, rather than overly focussing on COVID‐19, and also because the effectiveness of COVID‐19 mitigations can be amplified by integration with pre‐existing safety processes.

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Section: The Construction Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Stiles

Golightly

Ryan

2021

Hum Ftrs & Erg Mfg Svc

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“…The reason for ankle injury is because rhythmic gymnastics is an athletic event based on ballet combined with equipment (rings, balls, sticks, belts, and ropes), so the movements are mostly completed in the state of standing on the heels, and the weight of the human body rests on the ankle [ 26 ]. In addition, when jumping, balancing, and rotating, the center of gravity of the human body is offset, and the gravity falls on the outer edge of the foot; uneven force on the ankle and uneven force between the muscles and ligaments of the ankle can easily cause plantar flexion and varus sprain of the foot and damage the lateral synovium of the ankle joint and the anterior talofibular ligament.…”

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Effects of Body Posture and Different Exercise Intensity on Athletes’ Limb Injury

Jin

2022

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

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The purpose of this study was to solve the problem of the influence of body posture and different exercise intensity on athletes’ limb injuries, to meet the needs of understanding athletes’ injuries, and to make up for the lack of investigations on athletes’ limb injuries; this also increases the chances of an athlete avoiding injury. Severe acute sports injuries of high-level gymnasts endanger the personal safety of athletes. Many movements in gymnastics are done in the air much higher than the ground, and there is no fulcrum when the athlete does the movements; this just can only maintain balance and change your body posture through your own feelings, a slight error can easily cause your head or upper body to fall down, and the fragile spine cannot withstand the strong impact of the ground, resulting in high vertebral fractures, high paraplegia, and even death. Therefore, through a survey of 126 rhythmic gymnasts who participated in the 2011 “China Art Sports Cup” China Rhythmic Gymnastics Championship, a total of 172 injuries were found in 136 gymnasts, and the injury risk analysis was carried out from the main characteristics of the injuries.

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“…Construction is regarded as one of the hazardous and risky industries because of the nature of work. Factors contributing to the hazardous and risky nature of construction include manual handling such as lifting weights (Antwi-Afari et al, 2017), material handling (Hartmann and Fleischer, 2005), working with dangerous materials and pollutants (Sauni et al, 2001), working around plants, working at height and working in/with awkward COVID-19 safety regulations postures (Haslam et al, 2005;Dutta et al, 2020). The lack of effective safety interventions and/or mechanisms compound this situation.…”

Section: Construction Context and Health And Safety Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Stiles et al (2021) believe that effective management of health and hygiene, and safety on construction sites have become imperative because of COVID-19. Several studies have been done in the area of construction health and safety globally (Smallwood and Haupt, 2006;Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB), 2009;Andolfo and Sadeghpour, 2015;Chandi et al, 2018;Dutta et al, 2020). Moreover, studies on the effect of COVID-19 on the construction industry have been conducted in several countries (Avice, 2020;Bsisu, 2020;Gamil and Alhagar, 2020;Harinarain, 2020;Jallow et al, 2020;Wang et al, 2020;Agyekum et al, 2021;Stiles et al, 2021;Simpeh and Amoah, 2021).…”

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Barriers to the implementation of COVID-19 safety regulations: insight from Ghanaian construction sites

Simpeh

Bamfo-Agyei

Amoah

2021

JEDT

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Purpose The new normal introduced by COVID-19 has ushered in new safety regulations that are required to be implemented by all organisations, including the construction industry. The implementation of the COVID-19 regulations, like any health and safety regulation, is not without hindrances. Consequently, this study aims to explore factors hindering the implementation of COVID-19 safety regulations at construction sites in Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a qualitative research method using an open-ended questionnaire as a data collection instrument. The set of questionnaires were distributed by means of purposive and snowball sampling methods. The collected data were analysed by means of the thematic analysis technique. Findings It became evident that several factors militate against implementing COVID-19 safety regulations at construction sites. Cost of implementing COVID-19 safety measures, lack of compliance and ignorance were identified as the most hindering factors, whereas superstition, lack of personal protective equipment supply and theft of COVID-19 materials were reported by fewer respondents. Research limitations/implications The set of questionnaires were limited to small construction firms who were operating on site within the Central, Western and Greater Accra regions of Ghana during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the findings may be applicable to firms outside these regions because most of the small construction firms in the country share similar characteristics. Practical implications The recommendations proffered could help construction organisations devise strategies to overcome the barriers that hamper the implementation of COVID-19 safety regulations on site. Moreover, the findings could inform policymakers on what is required to enforce compliance on site. Originality/value COVID 19 is still new, and as a result, the body of knowledge is at the infancy stage. This article contributes to advancing the body of knowledge in the area of COVID-19 implementation challenges on construction sites.

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Effects of working posture and roof slope on activation of lower limb muscles during shingle installation

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Impact of COVID‐19 on health and safety in the construction sector

Effects of Body Posture and Different Exercise Intensity on Athletes’ Limb Injury

Barriers to the implementation of COVID-19 safety regulations: insight from Ghanaian construction sites

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