PHED-2526EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Snowmobile, Human Factors And Ergonomics, Allday

• School: Laurentian
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: PHED-2526EL
• Professor: Scherzinger

Document Summary

Manual materials handling, in terms of the types of activities involved, potential injuries, risk identification and the means of reducing risk. Methods to reduce the potential for injury during mmh activities include systems approaches to considering and optimizing materials-handling tasks when facilities or processes are designed, physical modifications to existing tasks and administrative approaches such as training and task rotation. Includes: lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling and carrying objects. These actions commonly occur in: transport and warehousing of items, moving of materials during manufacturing, mining or construction, or retail activities, maintenance or repair activities (occupational or household, moving of patients/residents in health care and residential settings. Ex: person complaining of sore back after all-day gardening or lifting a snowmobile out of the slush. Energy is expended to either move objects or keep them from moving, the amount of energy is expected and the forces that are placed on the body are affected by a number of factors; these include the following;