Final Survey Report: Ergonomics Interventions for Ship Construction Processes at Northrup Grumman Ship Systems: Ingalls Operations Shipyard, Pascagoula, Mississippi

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• Personal Author:
  Hudock, Stephen D.
• 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 the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi as a method to identify and quantify risk factors that workers may be exposed to in the course of their normal work duties. Several operations were identified for further analysis including: abrasive blasting, hatch assembly, pipe welding, subassembly grinding, and on-board cable pulling. The application of exposure assessment techniques provided a quantitative analysis of the risk factors associated with the individual tasks. Possible engineering interventions to address these risk factors for each task were suggested in a previous report. This report documents the subsequent actions taken to address the implementation of these interventions.
• Subjects:
  Engineering Ergonomics Musculoskeletal Diseases Musculoskeletal System Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Protective Clothing Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Ships Staff Development Vibration Welding

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• Keywords:
  Abrasive Blasting Body Regions Cables Control Technology Engineering Controls Equipment Design Equipment Maintenance Exposure Assessment Grinding Equipment Hand-arm Vibration Syndrome HAVS Injury Prevention Intervention Job Design Lifting Manual Lifting Manual Materials Handling Metal Workers Musculoskeletal System Disorders OSHA Region 4 Posture Protective Clothing Quantitative Risk Assessment Risk Factors Shipyard Industry Shipyards Shipyard Workers Task Performance Tools Training Upper Extremities Vibration Exposure Welders

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• Series:
  Engineering and Physical Hazards Survey Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  Ingalls Operations Shipyard
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Mississippi ; Pascagoula (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:
  1-6
• Contributor:
  Siegfried, Karl V. ; Wurzelbacher, Steven J. ; McSweeney, Kevin
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20053662
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2019-100199
• 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 229-15c, 2002 Dec ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• 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:c6bcfdeb35f6d408a3de3512d38311a0be6e8d6ffddd8ed4ae83b7a0dc646a23f0e996b2fc55ea4541929d145c4b4953fd98be3a19136ab6213890a68060621e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/174876/cdc_174876_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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