Ergonomic evaluation of workers during manual material handling

Abstract

This paper is focused on the review of ergonomic tools and the ergonomic issues that are present now. The main focus on this paper is to identify the ergonomic issues faced by the workers during Manual Material Handling (MMH). The studies show that the workers who had high ergonomic issues like Musculoskeletal Disorder while in Manual Handling such as lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, and any vibration generating activities. The main reason for enhancing the ergonomic issues is due to the improper knowledge of work, less experience, carelessness, and awkward working posture. The studies also show that age-wise and gender-wise have a variation in the rate of ergonomic issues. Here we focused on the general ergonomic tools and software for accessing easily in an industry or workplace to get the ergonomic risk level in their works. The Ergonomic tools like RULA, REBA, NIOSH, SNOOK Table, etc to be classified based on the work task. The categorization of the ergonomic tool will be helpful to select for particular task risk analysis and posture analysis. The project aims to do risk analysis in lifting and lowering the object in different sections of an industry with help of the NIOSH calculator (Ergo Fellow 3.0), and then provide necessary recommendations and instructions.