NIOSH Testimony on Manual Lifting by R. A. Lemen, January 1987.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This testimony contains comments and supplemental information from NIOSH as requested by OSHA concerning the Health and Safety Standards on Manual Lifting. Specific topics discussed in this testimony include the employee screening programs, the value of strength testing, training programs in manual handling techniques, the engineering approach to controlling lifting injuries, the usefulness of handles, asymmetric lifting, maximum acceptable weight and load moment, establishment of lifting standards, ergonomic approach of redesigning the most stressful tasks, and recommendations to modify existing current work practices guidelines. Psychophysical studies for determining maximum acceptable lifts involving asymmetric loading of the spinal column and supporting physiological data for such lifts was a topic to be included in developing guidelines for non sagittal tasks. Also included for consideration is biomechanical information and methods for improving techniques for analyzing manual materials handling jobs and the use of decision trees.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Digestive System Digestive System Diseases Epidemiology Hydrocarbons Neoplasms Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Solvents
• Keywords:
  Control-technology Lemen-R-A Manual-lifting Manual-materials-handling Musculoskeletal-system-disorders; NIOSH-Author NIOSH-Testimony Occupational-safety-programs Worker-health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Testimony
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00196237
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1987 Jan:8 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1987
• NORA Priority Area:
  Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment ; Research Tools and Approaches ; Control Technology ; Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Upper Extremities ; Disease and Injury
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6fef2bb367bd1d610578739a232cb58bc959c4c460bbce335612f4478bcf8380772a5c3bb5fa582e7b734a5071c992d3bbace5d3e82cc93012599f5fe98746f0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180421/cdc_180421_DS1.pdf
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