scholarly journals Evaluating Work-Related Risk Factors Associated with Low Back Disorders in the Roofing Industry

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Wang
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Back Disorders ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
Low Back Disorders

scholarly journals Assessing Work-Related Risk Factors on Low Back Disorders among Roofing Workers

2017 ◽  
Vol 143 (7) ◽  
pp. 04017026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Di Wang ◽  
Fei Dai ◽  
Xiaopeng Ning ◽  
Renguang G. Dong ◽  
John Z. Wu
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Back Disorders ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
Low Back Disorders

Gender differences in work-related risk factors associated with low back symptoms

Ergonomics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baiduri Widanarko ◽  
Stephen Legg ◽  
Mark Stevenson ◽  
Jason Devereux ◽  
Amanda Eng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Risk

Risk Factors for Recurrent Episodes of Work-Related Low Back Disorders in an Industrial Population

Spine ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 789-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise M. Oleske ◽  
Steven A. Lavender ◽  
Gunnar B. J. Andersson ◽  
Mary J. Morrissey ◽  
Phyllis Zold-Kilbourn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Back Disorders ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Low Back Disorders

Health-Related and Sociodemographic Risk Factors for Disability Pension due to Low Back Disorders

2011 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 488-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Pietikäinen ◽  
Karri Silventoinen ◽  
Pia Svedberg ◽  
Kristina Alexanderson ◽  
Antti Huunan-Seppälä ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Disability Pension ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Back Disorders ◽  
Low Back Disorders ◽  
Sociodemographic Risk ◽  
Health Related

Job exposures as correlates of recovery in population-based rehabilitation intervention for work-related low back disorders

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 481 ◽  
Author(s):  
DM Oleske ◽  
SA Lavender ◽  
GBJ Andersson ◽  
JJ Hahn ◽  
P Zold-Kilbourn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Based ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Back Disorders ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Rehabilitation Intervention ◽  
Low Back Disorders

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 and Psychosocial Work-related Risk Factors Associated with Musculoskeletal Symptoms among Home Care Personnel

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Brulin ◽  
Björn Gerdle ◽  
Brittmarie Granlund ◽  
Jonas Höög ◽  
Anders Knutson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Musculoskeletal Symptoms ◽  
Psychosocial Work ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Related Risk
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