Assessment of Manual Lifting – the NIOSH Approach

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• Personal Author:
  Putz-Anderson, Vernon ; Waters, Thomas R.
• Description:
  Historically, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has recognized and addressed the problem of work-related back injuries and published the Work Practices Gudie for Manual Liftin (WPG) in 1981 (NIOSH 1981). The WPG contains a summary of the lifting-related literature up to 1981, analytical procedures, a lifting equation for calculating a recommended weight for specified two-handed, symmetrical lifting tasks, and an approach for controlling the hazards of low-back injury from manual lifting. The approach to hazard control was coupled with the action limit (AL), a term that denoted the recommended weight derived from the lifting equation. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Epidemiology Hazardous Substances Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Safety Safety Management
• Keywords:
  Analytical-methods Back-injuries Exposure-assessment Health-hazards Manual-lifting Safety-measures Work-practices Worker-health Workers
• ISBN:
  9780872634855
• Publisher:
  Society of Manufacturing Engineers; Engineering & Management Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DBBS - Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  205-241
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027882
• Citation:
  Ergonomics in Manufacturing. Raising Productivity through Workplace Improvement. Karwowski W, Salvendy G, eds., Dearborn, MI: Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Norcross, GA: Engineering & Management Press, 1998 Apr; :205-241
• Editor(s):
  Karwowski W; Salvendy G
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Ergonomics in Manufacturing. Raising Productivity through Workplace Improvement
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1af0a2f1b2107dd8473ea1b6cfc9904dda41f8b2b74764a21d28619d96dc98efd929c3cdefa8ba04e550a7142cc45df8d5c1f8ad20235a831377a4034bf47aee
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197701/cdc_197701_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 13.30 MB ]