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Safe Patient Handling Risk Assessment

Hyperlink; Assessment–A comprehensive assessment of patient handling practices for use by an ergonomist or similar trained professional. Covers facility resources, current practices, environmental…

Washington State Ergonomic and MSD Risk Assessment Checklists

Hyperlink; Assessment–A library of resources for workers, health & safety professionals, ergonomists and other stakeholders to identify high forces, awkward postures, and repetitions. Resources…

NIOSH Lifting Equation

Hyperlink; Assessment–A tool to evaluate how safe or unsafe a lifting task is. It considers item location, how far the item moves, how twisted the worker is, how easy it is to hold the item, how…

Physical Demands Description (PDD) Toolkit (OHCOW)

Hyperlink; Assessment–A framework to guide users through writing physical demands descriptions and explain who and how they’re used.

Using Digital Human Modeling (DHM) to Examine Sonographer Upper Extremity Loading

Case Study: Assessment Method

Washington State Physical Job Evaluation Checklist

External link; Assessment – An interactive checklist to identify aspects of the job that pose a risk of MSD in different body regions. Different versions available for six major industries.

Revised Strain Index (RSI)

External link; Assessment – A tool to assess hand and wrist MSD risk for a task. Inputs include effort required, wrist posture and repetition to calculate the Strain Index score.

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