Assessment of challenges in patrol vehicles and with equipment among law enforcement officers

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• Journal Article:
  Appl Ergon
• Personal Author:
  Hsiao, Hongwei
• Description:
  Understanding the challenges Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs) have encountered with their vehicle and equipment and the correlation between equipment configuration and LEO body dimensions is critical for improving vehicle/equipment specifications to better accommodate today's LEOs. 974 LEOs participated in a study on their vehicle, equipment, and body measurements at 12 sites across the U.S. 88% participants reported discomfort/pain at the end of a shift. The most affected body areas were the lower back and hips. Handguns, radios, and handcuffs on duty belt and seat adjustment were associated with the discomfort/pain. 41% LEOs identified inadequate seat adjustment. Stature, buttock-popliteal length, eye height (sitting), knee height (sitting), shoulder-grip length, popliteal height, sitting height, hip breadth, and body weight were key parameters associated with seat adjustment needs. A third of officers experienced neck pain associated with the use of in-vehicle mobile data terminals and more fore/aft adjustment was needed.
• Subjects:
  Back Body Weight Humans Law Enforcement Neck Pain Police Sitting Position
• Keywords:
  Duty Belts Vehicle Equipment
• Source:
  Appl Ergon. 108:103946
• Pubmed ID:
  36455489
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11391882
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  108
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f30b53ffd5794a1e82ac480506a0e029ef178b643f6f3ed4708472df3bf2b77bed38aae69ed03aa88a095c3f8d14596296b7b83fc21de1edfaeb73d7d8f82c60
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/162400/cdc_162400_DS1.pdf
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