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Ergonomic Approaches to Reduce the Risk of a Manual Material Handling Task in a Brazilian Poultry Slaughterhouse

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Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics (AHFE 2020)

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This case study aimed to analyze the ergonomic risk of a manual material handling task and the effects of simulated interventions to reduce risks. The task of picking up boxes on the conveyor belt and putting them on the trolley of the freezing tunnel sector was selected intentionally. Two Brazilian poultry slaughterhouse workers positioned four boxes (7–18 kg) on each of the 11 shelves for 453 min daily. The vertical (0.25–1.75 m) and horizontal distances (0.45 m) and grip quality (poor) were collected. International Standards and the Variable Lift Index (VLI) software were employed. The average mass handled per worker was 11.7 kg (<25 kg), however, the results recommended weight limits of 2.1–5.5 kg for different heights. The cumulative mass lifted was 35,333 kg/worker/day (limit-10 tons), and 2,849 boxes/worker/day, consequently, the lifting frequency was 6.3/min, and VLI was 4.99 (very high). Performing job rotation with eight workers, ideal vertical area and box weights of 7–8 kg, VLI was 0.80.

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    Adriana Seára Tirloni, Diogo Cunha dos Reis & Antônio Renato Pereira Moro

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  1. Industrial Engineering and Management System, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Waldemar Karwowski

  2. Department IELM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Ravindra S. Goonetilleke

  3. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

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

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Tirloni, A.S., dos Reis, D.C., Moro, A.R.P. (2020). Ergonomic Approaches to Reduce the Risk of a Manual Material Handling Task in a Brazilian Poultry Slaughterhouse. In: Karwowski, W., Goonetilleke, R., Xiong, S., Goossens, R., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1215. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51549-2_32

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