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A Survey on the Workload Evaluation Methods and Their Applications to WMSD Work in Industries

작업평가방법론 및 현장 적용 고찰

  • Park, Jae-Hee (Department of Safety Engineering, Hankyong National University)
  • Received : 2010.07.09
  • Accepted : 2010.07.21
  • Published : 2010.08.31
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Abstract

To identify and evaluate the risk factors in WMSD work, a number of ergonomic workload evaluation methods have been developed. In the legal examination of WMSD risk factors, simple observational workload evaluation methods are widely used instead of using costly measurement equipments such as EMG and motion analyzer. The simple workload evaluation methods can be categorized into three groups; risk factor checklist methods, posture observation methods, and manual material handling task evaluation methods. In terms of the categories, this survey summarized several representative workload evaluation methods and compared them each other. Then some industrial application cases referring each the workload evaluation methods were surveyed. Due to the characteristics of each method, the selection and application procedure of workload evaluation method should be appropriate for the corresponding work. Therefore, some guidelines for the selection and application procedure of workload evaluation method were suggested.

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