Investigation of observational methods assessing workload of static working postures based on surface electromyography.

CONCLUSIONS: Results emphasise a need for further developments of observation-based methods, since the two investigated methods showed a variance of validity ranging from small to large. Such improvements may also form a better basis for the ergonomic improvement of working conditions in practise, which is highly necessary due to a constantly high prevalence of MSDs in the last decades.
PMID: 30829630 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Work - March 5, 2019 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Hellig T, Rick V, Mertens A, Nitsch V, Brandl C Tags: Work Source Type: research