Veronesi Index of Ergonomic Risk for Activities Repetitive of Members Upper Limbs

Abstract

Introduction: Many authors in their studies, report that repetitive activities are effective causes of the emergence of occupational diseases. Repetitive movements can often bring risk of injury, as the number of movements increases and / or the cycle time decreases Objectives: To evaluate the reliability of the REE-ARMS tool compared with the OCRA tool for ergonomic risk analysis. Materials and Methods: The IVRE-ARMS tool was created based on the following existing tools: Ochre Index, Rula, Reba, Moore and Garg and Tor-Tom, in addition to ISO 31000, ISO 11226 and ISO 11228-3. The research was given by a cross-sectional study, which analyzed 134 jobs, refrigerated poultry activities (55 posts) and pigs (60 posts) and banking activities (19 posts), all were applied the OCRA and IVRE- tools ARMS. Results: The Kendall tau test showed that there is a high statistical correlation between the OCRA and IVRE-ARMS tools, showing the reliability of the new tool. Conclusion: The IVRE-ARMS tool has been validated scientifically compared with the OCRA. This new tool provides the evaluator have multiple analysis of data, and the biomechanical also analyzed by OCRA, analyzes the organizational part, cognitive and biomechanics, stratifies the upper limb in shoulder, elbow and wrist. Thus this new tool enriches the ergonomic analysis and generating quantitative instrumentation to explore the most needed areas for improvement.