Ebook: Manual Lifting: A Guide to the Study of Simple and Complex Lifting Tasks

Manual lifting tasks--whether simple or complex--involve variable loads, postures, and movements. While many solutions to the occupational risk of biomechanical overload are available, prevention at the source can resolve many of the issues before they become issues. Prevention should be done directly by those designing the workplace and the work itself. A practical guide on how to analyze the intricate lifting function and prevent injury during its execution, Manual Lifting: A Guide to the Study of SImple and Complex Lifting Tasks outlines revised NIOSH Lifting Equation (RNLOE) methods and illustrates their use in assessing manual lifting tasks of varying degrees of difficulty. The book explains how RNLE methods can be applied to evaluate single, composite, variable, and sequential lifting tasks. It also explores how to interpret and apply the results according to international standards and guidelines. In this book the authors respond to the need to make more easily measurable, and therefore manageable, the matter of biomechanical overload due to manual loads handling--even by personnel not particularly skilled in ergonomics. Read more...