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The Importance of Lifting Height and Load Mass for Muscular Workload during Supermarket Stocking:Cross-Sectional Field Study
| العنوان: | The Importance of Lifting Height and Load Mass for Muscular Workload during Supermarket Stocking:Cross-Sectional Field Study |
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| المؤلفون: | Skovlund, Sebastian Venge, Bláfoss, Rúni, Skals, Sebastian, Jakobsen, Markus Due, Andersen, Lars Louis |
| المصدر: | Skovlund , S V , Bláfoss , R , Skals , S , Jakobsen , M D & Andersen , L L 2022 , ' The Importance of Lifting Height and Load Mass for Muscular Workload during Supermarket Stocking : Cross-Sectional Field Study ' , International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health , vol. 19 , no. 5 , 3030 . https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053030 |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | University of Southern Denmark: Research Output / Syddansk Universitet |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | EMG, Grocery stores, Lifting, Manual material handling, Musculoskeletal diseases, Retail industry |
| الوصف: | High physical work demands increase the risk of musculoskeletal disorders and sickness absence. Supermarket work involves a high amount of manual material handling. Identifying specific ergonomic risk factors is an important part of occupational health and safety efforts in the supermarket sector. In this cross-sectional field study among 64 supermarket workers, we used electromyography during the workday to determine the influence of lifting height and load mass on muscular workload of the low-back and neck/shoulder muscles during un-restricted manual material handling (grocery stocking). We found a significant effect of load mass, i.e., higher loads associated with higher muscular workload in the low-back and neck/shoulder muscles. We demonstrated a significant interaction between start and end position, i.e., lifts performed from ‘Low’ start positions to ‘High’ end positions demonstrated the highest low-back muscular workload, whereas ‘High’ positions were associated with increased neck/shoulder workload. In conclusion, lifting higher loads and lifting goods from low to high positions (low-back) and at high positions (neck/shoulder) are associated with higher muscular workload. These results can be used to guide highly warranted preventive initiatives to reduce the physical workload during supermarket work. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/25ef8f27-2142-40d3-a4de-67c398d20f4c |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph19053030 |
| الاتاحة: | https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/da/publications/25ef8f27-2142-40d3-a4de-67c398d20f4c https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19053030 https://findresearcher.sdu.dk/ws/files/200073317/ijerph_19_03030.pdf |
| Rights: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.CB456621 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph19053030 |
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