Musculoskeletal disorders: OWAS review.

In conclusion, the OWAS has been applied mainly in two sectors: "Manufacturing industries" and "Healthcare and Social assistance activities". This method needs to be complemented with other indirect or direct methods. Also, whenever the OWAS has been used, whether individually or together with other methods, musculoskeletal disorders risks have been detected, this perhaps being an indicator to review the evaluation parameters because overestimating the risk.
PMID: 28484144 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Industrial Health - May 10, 2017 Category: Occupational Health Tags: Ind Health Source Type: research