Occupational biomechanics—a basis for workplace design to prevent musculoskeletal injuries

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This paper proposes that occupational biomechanics is the growing discipline necessary to improve workplace design. As such it focuses on the rapidly expanding body of biomechanics knowledge on workplace situations that cause musculoskeletal injuries and disabilities. Several new methods for evaluating the bio-mechanical consequences of workplace designs are reviewed, including computerized biomechanical models of workers and the use of general design guidelines to improve workplace design. Examples of how workplaces can be redesigned to reduce musculoskeletal stresses on the lower back, wrist and shoulder are provided, to illustrate how occupational biomechanics is being applied in several different industries to prevent musculoskeletal injuries and disabilities.

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