Participatory Ergonomic Interventions in Meatpacking Plants

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This book contained three in depth reports of intervention projects designed to reduce ergonomic hazards at meat packing facilities. The first study site was a pork slaughter and processing facility employing 1,200 persons slaughtering 7,500 to 7,800 hogs per day. The second case study involved two components, one describing a corporate ergonomics program and assessing the program's effectiveness, and the other demonstrating that the activities and performance of two ergonomics teams in a single facility of the corporation were effective. The corporation and its subsidiaries manufactured, marketed, and distributed meat products. The third setting was a medium sized meat processor. The facility was an all inclusive beef processing operation containing a modern slaughtering facility processing about 1,000 cows each day; a complete whole muscle boning and trimming operation; and a beef restructuring operation. The following findings were cited: participatory efforts will have to be sustained in order to solve ergonomic programs and in house direction and support must be strong and tied to staff expertise; in house knowledge and team activities which reflect an orderly approach to problem solving can be created through training; team size should be kept to a minimum; access must be facilitated to the necessary information; and means for evaluating team efforts and results need to be written into the overall plan for a participatory ergonomic program. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Food Handling Food Industry Livestock Musculoskeletal Diseases Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Back-injuries Human-factors-engineering Manual-materials-handling Meat-handlers Meat-packing-industry Musculoskeletal-system-disorders Repetitive-work Slaughterhouses
• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHPUB94124
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Case Studies
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00224008
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB95-187027
• Citation:
  Gjessing CC, Schoenborn TF, Cohen A, ed. 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, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 94-124, 1994 Jan; :1-214
• Editor(s):
  Gjessing CC; Schoenborn TF; Cohen A
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1dae8201bf345dec6ba6a931433f20cc42ef28ccb820f81f3a155973061cb15b82f69a3423a1362c96ab1b39959d43d551e530b11bf5a20a67a2d9257d7e5451
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209662/cdc_209662_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.58 MB ]