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A method for evaluation of manual work using synchronised video recordings and physiological measurements |
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| Authors: | Forsman M Hansson G A Medbo L Asterland P Engström T |
| Affiliation: | a National Institute for Working Life, P.O. Box 8850, SE-402 72, Gothenburg, Sweden b Department of Human Factors Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden c Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden d Department of Transportation and Logistics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Abstract: | Industrial interventions that focus on increased productivity may impair the ergonomics, on a workstation or individual level. This paper presents a method that characterises work time consumption and physical work load of manual work, using video recordings synchronised with physiological measurements of, e.g. muscular activity, and postures. The underlying idea was that it is possible to amalgamate technical and human aspects resulting in a synergetic evaluation. The method was developed through two case studies within the Swedish automotive industry, where manual materials handling was studied. A methodological result was that the synchronising procedure was sufficiently precise to allow work activities to be assigned significantly different levels of physical work load. These different levels may be used to predict physical work load in the design and change of production systems. It was concluded that the method is accurate enough to be a useful tool in industrial interventions. |
| Keywords: | Industrial interventions Work activity analysis Work organisation |
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