Measuring low back injury risk factors in challenging work environments: An evaluation of cost and feasibility

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (9) ◽  
pp. 687-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Trask ◽  
Kay Teschke ◽  
Judy Village ◽  
Yat Chow ◽  
Peter Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Back Injury ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Low Back Injury ◽  
Injury Risk Factors

Identifying Safe Load Moment Exposures for the Back

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (14) ◽  
pp. 883-883
Author(s):  
Steven A. Lavender ◽  
William S. Marras ◽  
Sue A. Ferguson ◽  
Riley E. Splittstoesser ◽  
Gang Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Physical Workload ◽  
Back Injury ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Distribution Centers ◽  
Back Disorders ◽  
Low Back Injury ◽  
Low Back Disorders ◽  
Back Disorder

Low back disorders continue to be the most common and significant work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the US. Identifying what constitutes a “safe” physical workload has been the biggest challenge facing injury prevention efforts. Prior low back injury risk models have focused on manufacturing activities where there is limited variability in the parameters used to describe the exposures to low back disorder risk factors. Lifting tasks in distribution centers can have considerably more variability in load and physical layout. The goal of this project was to identify and quantify measures that characterize the biomechanical risk factors, including measures of the load moment exposure, and measures that characterize the duty cycle that are predictive of low back disorders in distribution centers. Thus, our hypothesis was that we could define a relationship between moment exposure parameters and the low back disorder incidence rates. A cross-sectional study was designed to examine the mechanical risk factors responsible for reported low back injury in distributions centers. The physical exposure was measured on 195 workers on 50 jobs in 21 distribution centers using a sonic-based Moment Exposure Tracking System (METS). The METS measures load, force, load moment, torso kinematics, and temporal parameters of the job simultaneously. For each job, low back injury rates were collected retrospectively from the company's records over the prior 3-year period. The data were used to develop a risk model designed to predict back injury risk based upon direct measures of load and load moment exposure. The model incorporates biomechanical variables which include the load moment and horizontal sliding forces, as well as a temporal variable indicating the opportunity for micro-breaks during the work process. Overall, the presented model has very good sensitivity (87%) and specificity (73%).

Physical Demands and Low-Back Injury Risk Among Children and Adolescents Working on Farms

2004 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 255-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. G. Allread ◽  
J. R. Wilkins III ◽  
T. R. Waters ◽  
W. S. Marras
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Back Injury ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Physical Demands ◽  
Low Back Injury

A case-control study of risk factors for industrial low back injury: Implications for primary and secondary prevention programs

1991 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawren H. Daltroy ◽  
Martin G. Larson ◽  
Elizabeth A. Wright ◽  
Susan Malspeis ◽  
Anne H. Fossel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Secondary Prevention ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Back Injury ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Primary And Secondary Prevention ◽  
Low Back Injury ◽  
Control Study

Development and evaluation of an observational Back-Exposure Sampling Tool (Back-EST) for work-related back injury risk factors

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 538-544 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Village ◽  
C. Trask ◽  
N. Luong ◽  
Y. Chow ◽  
P. Johnson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Injury Risk ◽  
Back Injury ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Injury Risk Factors
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