Innovation in the occupational health physician profession requires the development of a work collective to improve the efficiency of MSD prevention

Caroly, Sandrine; Landry, Aurélie; Cholez, Céline; Davezies, Philippe; Bellemare, Marie; Poussin, Nadine

doi:10.3233/wor-2012-0128-5

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“…The main mission is to avoid any alteration in the employees' health due to their work. Thus, during these visits, employees receive advice to prevent occupational risks [5].…”

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Using a Virtual Reality Tool to Provide Primary Prevention Training in the Construction Field Following a Periodic Medical Visit: Cross-Sectional Study

Chamot,

Mahieu,

Delzard

et al. 2024

JMIR Serious Games

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Background The construction field is highly concerned with the risk of work-related accidents, and training employees is difficult due to their small numbers in most companies. Objective This study aimed to study the impact of a virtual reality (VR) training tool following a periodic occupational health medical visit on the feeling of personal effectiveness in preventing occupational risks related to co-activity on a construction site. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study with employees who had a periodic medical visit between April 1, 2022, and October 13, 2022, in a French occupational health service specializing in the construction field (Services Médicaux Interentreprises Bâtiment Travaux Publics [SMIBTP]). The employees were divided into 2 groups according to the training received: a medical visit alone or coupled with a session with a VR tool. We compared the scores for a “feeling of self-efficacy in occupational risk prevention” using the Fisher exact test. Results Of the 588 employees included, 210 had a medical visit alone, and 378 had a medical visit coupled with VR training. Training with the VR tool was associated with an increased “feeling of self-efficacy in occupational risk prevention.” The employees who benefited from the training reported a willingness to apply the advice given on prevention to a greater extent than those who did not, and they believed that risks on the worksite could be reduced using this tool. Conclusions Using VR training as a complement to periodic medical visits in an occupational health service improves the feeling of personal effectiveness in occupational risk prevention at the end of the training. If this trend is confirmed over a longer period of time, it could be an easily accessible prevention lever for employees in the future.

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“…The main mission is to avoid any alteration in the employees' health due to their work. Thus, during these visits, employees receive advice to prevent occupational risks [5].…”

Section: Health Monitoring Of Employees In Francementioning

confidence: 99%

Using a Virtual Reality Tool to Provide Primary Prevention Training in the Construction Field Following a Periodic Medical Visit: Cross-Sectional Study

Chamot,

Mahieu,

Delzard

et al. 2024

JMIR Serious Games

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“…Classical automation procedures has obliged the operators to follow specific operation paradigms, this type of constrained operation increases the cognitive load of the operators [11,12], reduces the room for maneuver in their task performance and causes musculoskeletal disorders [1,23]. This is due to a lack of human variability consideration in the design of the automation process.…”

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Adapting Cobot Behavior to Human Task Ordering Variability for Assembly Tasks

HMEDAN

Kilgus

Fiorino

et al. 2022

FLAIRS

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In this paper, we address flexible assembly plans generation to accommodate human task variability. Unlike existing approaches, the proposed approach is based on a free-style human-robot interaction (HRI) that does not impose any task order on the participants and furthermore can accommodate their errors and help them to correct the errors without stopping the whole assembly process. Our approach is implemented in a real robotic architecture that combines sensory-motor modules with Hierarchical Task Networks (HTN) to endow the cobot with the necessary adaptability to correspond to human actions dynamically. We show experimentally with 56 participants on a simulated industrial assembly task that the cobot increases the task performance (reduction in the number of errors and gestures) without increasing the participants' cognitive load.

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Reducing work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) through design: Views of ergonomics and design practitioners

Punchihewa

Gyi

2015

WOR

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BACKGROUND: Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) affect the well-being of workers. Unfortunately, user requirements for design to reduce workplace risk factors for MSDs are not always effectively communicated to designers creating a mismatch between the user requirements and what is ultimately produced. OBJECTIVE:To understand the views of practitioners of design and ergonomics regarding tools for participatory design and features they would like to see in such tools. METHODS:An online questionnaire survey was conducted with a cohort of practitioners of ergonomics and design (n=32). In-depth interviews were then conducted with a subset of these practitioners (n=8). To facilitate discussion, a prototype integrated design tool was developed and demonstrated to practitioners using a verbalized walkthrough approach. RESULTS:According to the results of the questionnaire survey, the majority (70%) believed an integrated approach to participatory design would help reduce work-related MSDs and suggested ways to achieve this, for example, through sharing design information. The interviews showed the majority (n=7) valued being provided with guidance on design activities and ways to manage and present information. CONCLUSION:It is believed that an integrated approach to design in order to help reduce work-related MSDs is highly important and a provision to evaluate design solutions would be desirable for practitioners of design and ergonomics.Keywords: design process; participatory design; design methods IntroductionWork-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) affect the health and well-being of workers and can hinder growth in the industrial sector causing staggering expense [1]. Attempts have been made to reduce MSDs in the working population, for example, intervention programs [2-5], standards [6] and guidelines [7,8] have been developed to try to eliminate workplace risk factors, but they are still commonplace. Research suggests that more intervention approaches are required and that methods currently being used to reduce the risk of MSDs among workers could be improved [9,10]. Adherence to ergonomics in design together with a full assessment of work systems would help curb work-related MSDs [1].A drawback in the design process is the mismatch between user requirements to reduce workplace risk factors for MSDs and what is ultimately produced [11,12]. Stakeholders in the design process include users that directly interact with equipment and processes and practitioners such as engineers, designers and others such as ergonomists, occupational health professionals and health and safety personnel that may be involved in the design process and influence design decisions. However, the involvement of such professionals varies [13] and 2 user focused design requirements to reduce workplace risk factors for MSDs are not always effectively and efficiently conveyed preventing appropriate solutions being incorporated in the next generation of designs. Thus, a mechanism to fill this void between the users and the ...

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Innovation in the occupational health physician profession requires the development of a work collective to improve the efficiency of MSD prevention

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Using a Virtual Reality Tool to Provide Primary Prevention Training in the Construction Field Following a Periodic Medical Visit: Cross-Sectional Study

Using a Virtual Reality Tool to Provide Primary Prevention Training in the Construction Field Following a Periodic Medical Visit: Cross-Sectional Study

Adapting Cobot Behavior to Human Task Ordering Variability for Assembly Tasks

Reducing work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) through design: Views of ergonomics and design practitioners

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