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Brazil is the largest poultry meat exporter, especially in the form of cut-up parts. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the risks associated with repetitive movements of the upper limbs in meat processing tasks. The study was conducted in a slaughterhouse with 3000 workers that slaughtered 300000 chickens/poultries per day. The OCRA checklist was used to evaluate work tasks. The 22 work tasks analyzed were the following: cutting (n = 11); chiller (n = 1); freezing tunnels (n = 1); reception (n = 3) and packing (n = 6). The average of occupational repetitive actions performed by poultry workers was 59.1 ± 18.0 per minute. The average score of OCRA’s checklist was 16.8 ± 4.2 (moderate risk). The scores for the right upper limb (18.3—moderate risk) were significantly higher (p = 0.003) than the contralateral limb (15.3—moderate risk). Two work tasks were considered high risk (9 %); 17 represented moderate risk (77 %), and 3 were considered low risk (14 %).
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Reis, D., Moro, A., Ramos, E., Reis, P. (2016). Upper Limbs Exposure to Biomechanical Overload: Occupational Risk Assessment in a Poultry Slaughterhouse. 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_28
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