gestetner 313 offset press operators manual

In-addition, 3 areas, for-further-research, were identified. Several-tailored recommendations, to-control, or prevent, the-identified-hazards, were-offered, including: engineering, work-practice/administrative, and PPE-approaches. For the-posture #2, the-risks were: (1) awkward-neck, and head-posture, with 38 degrees-deviation, from neutral-posture (2) risk of eye-strain (3) stress on lower-extremities and (5) standing static-posture. These-investigations revealed the-following-risks of MSDs or MSIs, for the-posture #1: (1) awkward-back posture-trunk-bending-forward, at the-waist, with 46 degrees deviation, from neutral-posture (2) visually-demanding-operation (risk of eye-strain) (3) contact-pressure (4) stress on lower-extremities and (5) standing-static-posture. The-RULA-analysis, on the-two-chosen highest-risk-postures (#1 and #2), identified 2nd and 3rd action-level of danger of musculoskeletal-injury (MSI), necessitating further-investigation, and possible-change/correction. In-addition, ISO 11226: Ergonomics, evaluation of static-working-postures (2000) and EN-1005- 4: Safety of machinery, human-physical-perfor¬mance, and evaluation of working-postures, in relation to-machinery, were-used, as a-reference. This-study examined such-postures, at-printing-section of finishing-department, at textile-mill, via numerical-rating ergonomic-assessment-tool, namely Rapid-Upper-Limb-Assessment (RULA). To-prevent MSDs, their-root-causes, particularly, poor/awkward-postures, should be identified, first.

Musculoskeletal-disorders (MSDs) are one of the-most-noticeable global-problems, ergonomists come- across, in the-workplace.

Gestetner 313 offset press operators manual