Interim Survey Report: Recommendations for Ergonomics Interventions for Ship Construction Processes at Halter Moss Point Shipyard, Moss Point, Mississippi

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• Personal Author:
  Hudock, Stephen D. ; Johnston, Ova E. ; Wurzelbacher, Steven J.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Description:
  A pre-intervention quantitative risk factor analysis was performed at various shops and locations within Halter Marine, Inc. Moss Point Shipyard, as a method to identify and quantify ergonomic risk factors that workers may be exposed to in the course of their normal work duties. The application of exposure assessment techniques provided a quantitative analysis of the risk factors associated with the individual tasks. Based on these analyses and a review of safety management practices, three ergonomic interventions are suggested for the Halter Marine Shipyard: 1) a computerized injury tracking system for use in the Halter safety, workers compensation, and administrative departments
  
  2) a shear press lift table for the east side fabrication shop
  
  and 3) a gator bar tool re-design for the angle iron positioning process in the steel yard. Detailed descriptions of each intervention are provided including cost benefit analysis where appropriate.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Construction Materials Engineering Environmental Monitoring Ergonomics Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Ships
• Keywords:
  Construction Construction-equipment Construction-materials Control-technology Engineering-controls Equipment-design Exposure-assessment Injury-prevention OSHA Region 4 Risk-analysis Risk-factors Shipbuilding-industry Shipyard-industry Shipyard-workers Shipyards

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• Series:
  Engineering and Physical Hazards Survey Reports
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHEPHB22912b
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  Halter Moss Point Shipyard
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Mississippi ; Moss Point (MS) ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology ; EPHB - Engineering and Physical Hazards Branch
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-21
• Contributor:
  Flaherty, Diana R.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20028578
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2006-100871
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, EPHB 229-12b, 2001 Aug ; :1-21
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2001
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  3731 - Ship building and repairing - (SIC)
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:13691403ff42c54cd3db12b1c70d86571a684daec660df58f3fceebd96256cd937b4e2023c9063f7200d40d2c620126408b5ca06649d811b39053027c330085e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174866/cdc_174866_DS1.pdf
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