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Ergonomic risk assessment – a case study of a garment manufacturing industry
conference contribution
posted on 2016-09-23, 13:45 authored by Amjad Hussain, Iqra Javed, Keith Case, Ashfaq Ahmad, Nadeem SafdarPakistan is the eighth largest exporter of textiles, and this sector contributes 8.7% to the country's GDP. The garment industry contribution to the total textile-based exports from the country is 47%. Skilled labour is available at relatively cheap rates. Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are prevalent in this sector and this research is aimed at finding the levels of risk attached to working activities and to gain knowledge of the major causes of musculoskeletal disorders. The Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA) method was used for this purpose. It was found that postures related to the wrist (0–15° or >15° flexion or extension with twist or deviation), lower arm (<60° or >100° flexion) and neck (extension and flexion with twist or side flexed) are the major causes of musculoskeletal disorders. These findings will help in the design of workplaces and working strategies to minimize risk and so increase satisfaction, productivity and overall well-being at the workplace.
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School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
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Fourteenth International Conference on Manufacturing Research Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXXPages
237 - 242 (6)Citation
HUSSAIN, A. ... et al, 2016. Ergonomic risk assessment – a case study of a garment manufacturing industry. IN: Goh, Y.M. and Case, K. (eds). Advances in Manufacturing Technology XXX. Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Manufacturing Research, Incorporating the 31st National Conference on Manufacturing Research, 6th-8th September 2016, Loughborough University, pp. 237-242.Publisher
© IOS PressVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2016-08-29Publication date
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This paper was published in: Advances in Manufacturing Technology, XXX. HUSSAIN, A. ... et al. Ergonomic risk assessment – a case study of a garment manufacturing industry, pp. 237-242. Copyright 2016 available here with permission from IOS Press. The publication is available at IOS Press through http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-668-2-237ISBN
9781614996675ISSN
2352-751XeISSN
2352-7528Publisher version
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Advances in Transdisciplinary;3Language
- en