Job Rotation Based on Ergonomics

Format:

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Baio, John R., author.

Conference Name:

Southern Automotive Manufacturing Conference & Exposition (1998-08-11 : Nashville, Tennessee, United States)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 1998

Summary:

A method of reducing cumulative trauma injuries based on ergonomic job rotationIn today's growing global market many companies are implementing activities to improve productivity and employee performance in order to produce more saleable value per employee. Because of increased performance many of these improvement activities have led to higher injury rates based on repetitive cumulative trauma. This session will deal with understanding the role and effects of ergonomics on the shop floor. It will demonstrate how to analyze each job based on ergonomic effects, categorize those jobs and develop a job rotation schedule based on simple ergonomics, which will allow operators recovery time from cumulative repetitive motion

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Publisher Number:

982094

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license