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Ergonomic Principles from LMPS
Courtesy of The Lift Manufacturers Product Section (LMPS)
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Exploring The Myth Behind Stretching Programs
While stretching alone does not appear to be the most effective mechanism
for managing work-related musculoskeletal disorders, it does take a step in the
right direction to increase
awareness concerning the benefits of movement, circulation, and posture.
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Industrial Ergonomics Backgrounder
Prepared by the Ergonomic Assist Systems and Equipment Council (EASE)
Product Council of the Material Handling Industry Of America. This document
gives a general overview and basic understanding of "ergonomics", typical
ergonomic injuries, the impact of those injuries on your business and your
employees, and solutions. It also discusses training for your workers,
available ergonomic assist equipment and what the payoff of establishing
effective ergonomic procedures can be to your company.
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What's New In Ergonomic Assist Devices?
Jim Galante of Southworth Products Corporation describes in detail the
many ergonomic problems and their solutions due to new ergonomic assist devices.
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Ergonomics: Maximizing The Human Resource
1986 Logistex Forum
May 6-8, 1986
Brian E. McNamara
Southward Incorporated
Every business in industrial America has trembled with the self-doubts which
result from the staggering amounts of evidence which conclude that our domestic
productivity has not kept pace with foreign competition. In a reaction to this
growing concern, an extraordinary amount of attention has been focused on the
fields of automation and robotics. Managements have and will continue to invest
millions of dollars to renovate plants, control inventories and automate operations.
These programs are not only worthwhile but also an absolute necessity if our
companies are to remain competitive contributors in the marketplace. However
almost completely lost in this race to automate is the need to enhance the
efficiency of the workers who populate our factories and warehouse.
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Ergonomics and Material Handling: A Taskoriented Assessment of Needs And Solutions Material Handling Applications Using the Lumbar Motion Monitor
ProMat 99 Forum
Richard S. Wyatt PH.D., P.E., CPE
Aon Ergonomic Services
Huntsville, Alabama
As a material handling professional, you are confronted with discovering, evaluating, and implementing improved material handling strategies. Heres a tool that can be used to evaluatethe dynamic motion in a job and its resultant injury risk. This tool, The Lumbar Motion Monitor (LMM), allows you to more accurately predict the onset and severity of back injuries. The LMM can also assist in creating and documenting an improved risk reduction strategy.
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Ergonomics and Total Quality Management at L.L. Bean
Edward F. Rooney
Manager, Employee Health Management
L.L. Bean, Inc.
Freeport, Maine 04003
Abstract
Like many companies in the mid to late 1980s, L. L. Bean experienced an
increase in cumulative trauma disorders, predominantly of the upper extremities
and back. As we focused on reducing these injuries/illnesses through an emphasis
on ergonomics and other programs (e.g. worksite stretch, physical therapy,
education/training, rehabilitation), we also shifted to total quality management
as a way of doing business. Many systems internal to L. L. Bean were effected,
including job design, performance appraisals, pay, scheduling, and management
emphasis, as well as new focus on and accountabilities for health and safety in the
productionareas. Through this macroergonomic approach we were able to reduce
lost-time injuries by (-61%) and (-94%) in our distribution and manufacturing
divisions, respectively, from 1988 to 1993.
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