The seabed of Galician estuaries is contaminated with sludge from human activity: industrial, aquaculture, etc. so that the height of the sludge layer under mussel polygons grows an average of 10 cm per year. The low ...

This paper describes a new neural network model applied to classifying the risk of low back disorders presented by certain lifting jobs. The neural network obtained can be used by the ergonomist as a diagnostics system, ...

The main objective of the Check List OCRA method is to alert about the potential musculoskeletal disorders caused by a repetitive activity. Nowadays Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders (WRMD) are among the main causes ...

This paper presents three ergonomic approaches and how they promote innovation in productive organisations’ project engineering. Ergonomics integrates design variables and offers methodological approaches that favour ...

Researchers, academics and even the National Development Plan 2012, converge about the insufficient entailment between university and the labor market. This results in a lack of harmony in the training of graduates of ...

The multivariate techniques can represent an alternative, fast, easy, inexpensive and non-destructive to determine physicochemical properties of oils in service in aircraft internal combustion engines (MCI), such as kinematic ...

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Ergonomic assessment methods identify the exposure of workers to risk factors associated to their workstations. Nowadays, many assessment methods analyze same risk type. For example, to assess manual load handling different ...

Nowadays ergonomists and health and safety professionals apply a great variety of ergonomic assessment methods to the workstations analysis. The aim of this paper is to determinate the degree of applicability of ergonomic ...

The National Institute of Safety and Hygiene at Work (INSHT) has developed a manual load handling guide, with the purpose of facilitating the fulfillment of the effective legislation for occupational health and safety ...