Preventing Ergonomic-Related Injuries In Laboratories
- Topics:
- Contingency Planning
- Source:
- PennWell
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Overview: The most difficult and most valuable skill to develop is hazard recognition, or identifying those tasks observed everyday that have ergonomic issues. Once an ergonomic hazard has been identified, controls need to be implemented to reduce or eliminate the hazard. By evaluating the five factors listed in the article and soliciting recommendations from workers performing tasks, effective engineering controls can often be found. An effective engineering control might be replacement of a pipette with one that requires less force to operate or installation of a video display monitor on a microscope. If effective-engineering controls cannot be identified, administrative controls should be applied. An administrative control might include limiting the length of time pipetting. Whatever the solution it is important to include workers in the process. Solutions must become integrated into their work and the solution must permit, and hopefully help them, accomplish their work goals.
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Format: HTML | Date: May 2001 | Pages: 1
