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  2. Ergonomic hazard - Wikipedia

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    Ergonomic hazards are physical conditions that may pose a risk of injury to the musculoskeletal system due to poor ergonomics. These hazards include awkward or static postures, high forces, repetitive motion, or insufficient rest breaks activities. The risk of injury is often magnified when multiple factors are present.

  3. Ergonomics for manual material handling - Wikipedia

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    Manual handling of containers may expose workers to physical conditions (e.g., force, awkward postures, and repetitive motions) that can lead to injuries, wasted energy, and wasted time. To avoid these problems, your organization can directly benefit from improving the fit between the demands of work tasks and the capabilities of your workers.

  4. Manual handling of loads - Wikipedia

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    To better understand the potential injuries of manual handling of materials, we must first understand the underlying conditions which can cause the injuries. When an injury occurs from manual handling of materials, it often is a result of one of the following underlying condition(s). Awkward posture: Bending or twisting

  5. Amazon agrees to worker safety measures to settle US probe - AOL

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    (Reuters) -Amazon.com will implement safety measures at all of its U.S. facilities to settle a federal agency's claims that it failed to prevent workers from developing back problems and other ...

  6. Engineering controls - Wikipedia

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    According to the US Department of Labor, falls account for 8% of all work-related trauma injuries leading to death. [18] Fall guarding is the use of guard rails or other barricades to prevent a person from falling. These barricades are placed near an edge where a fall hazard can occur, or to surround a weak surface (such as a skylight on a roof ...

  7. Ergonomics - Wikipedia

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    Proper ergonomic design is necessary to prevent repetitive strain injuries and other musculoskeletal disorders, which can develop over time and can lead to long-term disability. Human factors and ergonomics are concerned with the "fit" between the user, equipment, and environment or "fitting a job to a person" [6] or "fitting the task to the ...

  8. Repetitive strain injury - Wikipedia

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    A repetitive strain injury (RSI) is an injury to part of the musculoskeletal or nervous system caused by repetitive use, vibrations, compression or long periods in a fixed position. [1] Other common names include repetitive stress injury , repetitive stress disorders , cumulative trauma disorders ( CTDs ), and overuse syndrome .

  9. Job safety analysis - Wikipedia

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    Ergonomic hazards: Ex. awkward postures, incorrect lifting, vibration; Chemical hazards: Ex. vapors and fumes, pesticides, flammable liquids; Work organization hazards: Ex. workload demands, job stress, lack of respect; Mechanism of injury. Mechanism of injury (MOI) is the means by which an injury occurs.