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Work related Musculoskeletal disorders affect millions of workers in Europe and cost employers billions of Euros. Concerned about this problematic, the Renault Group has developed methodologies to assess the risks associated with jobs that integrate repetitive tasks such as the Ergonomic Assessment Method V3 (EAM-v3). Bearing in mind that the assessment of certain jobs by the EAM-v3 does not seem to fully reflect the concerns and the complaints reported by the operators performing them, it seemed appropriate to evaluate these jobs with other methods available in the literature. The main objective of this study was to compare the EAM-v3 results with those obtained with the OCRA Checklist Index (OCRA) and the Strain Index (SI). Five workstations were selected and assessed with the three methods aforementioned. The results obtained showed that in 60% of the evaluated cases, the EAM-v3 was robust enough to reflect the concerns of the respective workers, since the results obtained were, at least, similar or even higher than those obtained by the OCRA and SI methods. In 40% of the cases, the EAM-v3 was less protective resulting in lower risk levels.
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Carvalho, F., Silva, S., Melo, R.B. (2020). The RENAULT Ergonomic Assessment Method V3: Comparing Results with the OCRA Checklist and the Strain Index Methods. In: Nunes, I. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1207. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51369-6_50
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