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Analysis and Evaluation of Physical Workload Regarding Non-cyclic Tasks

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Most of the ergonomic methods to rate the physical strains of jobs (EAWS for example) can only be used for traditional production workplaces such as assembly lines. Craft professions are difficult to rate with these methods, since the tasks of these professions are long cycled or uncycled and do not repeat after a short time. This work will show a new way, making it possible to conduct a work place assessment for long or uncycled tasks using the example of roofers and carpenters. The so called SOP method uses short sections of a working day to define the whole strain of a day.

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Acknowledgments

From April 2014 to December 2016 HANDgerecht was sponsored by the Initiative New Quality of Work of the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and professionally supported by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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  1. Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Otto-Berndt-Straße 2, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany

    Lukas Bier, Katharina Rönick, Dorothee Müglich, Andrea Sinn-Behrendt, Verena Bopp & Ralph Bruder

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Bier, L., Rönick, K., Müglich, D., Sinn-Behrendt, A., Bopp, V., Bruder, R. (2016). Analysis and Evaluation of Physical Workload Regarding Non-cyclic Tasks. In: Goonetilleke, R., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 489. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41694-6_23

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