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Ergonomic Evaluation in the Ecuadorian Workplace

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Advances in Social and Occupational Ergonomics (AHFE 2019)

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In Ecuador, ergonomic risk is present in all types of work activity. 1759 ergonomic evaluations were carried out between 2012 and 2017 applying methodologies validated and used worldwide. The results establish that more than 90% of jobs have an unacceptable level of ergonomic risk which determines that technical and organizational corrective measures must be taken to reduce or eliminate the risk and avoid a high incidence of musculoskeletal problems in the working population of the country.

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  1. Universidad Internacional Sek, Quito, Ecuador

    Oswaldo Jara, Esteban Carrera & Pablo Dávila

  2. Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

    Fanny Ballesteros

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  1. Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

    Richard H.M. Goossens

  2. Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

    Atsuo Murata

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Jara, O., Ballesteros, F., Carrera, E., Dávila, P. (2020). Ergonomic Evaluation in the Ecuadorian Workplace. In: Goossens, R., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Social and Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 970. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20145-6_23

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