Repetitive movements of upper limbs in viticulture: set up of annual ezposure level assessment models with OCRA checklist comparing with the first results of clinical data
Wine production is an important activity in South of Europe, where 70％ of the worlds vineyards are located. Studies of ergonomic analysis at pruning and harvesting wine grape vines have already been published. But pruning and harvesting are only part of several other tasks that the worker performs in the field over the annual cycle of crop, with estimates showing that a worker operates around 12 times a year at each vine. Additionally, every task implies significant differences in biomechanical demand, depending on the variety of grapes planted, the desired quality of the wine, the level of mechanization, the tools used, and the ground characteristics, among others. This study performed a complete tasks analysis during the annual cycle in 11 vineyard farms, located in different regions of Catalunya with a total of 162 farm workers. The intrinsic risk index of upper limb injury was calculated for every task, specifying the temporal patterns of annual exposure for each professional profile. As a final point, we present preliminary results obtained from clinical data using different analytic methods based on OCRA check list in order to measure the cumulative risk level of upper limbs.
E. álvarez-Casado A. Hernández-Soto D. Colombini
Centre Específic de Recerca per a la millora i Innovació de les Empreses-Universitat Politècnica de Centre Específic de Recerca per a la millora i Innovació de les Empreses -Universitat Politècnica de Research Unit EPM - Foundation Policlinico Mangiagalli - Milano (Italy)
国际会议
17th World Congress on Ergonomics(第十七届国际人类工效学大会)
北京
英文
1-7
2009-08-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）