Citation

Chaffin DB, Gallay LS, Woolley CB, Kuciemba SR. Int. J. Ind. Ergonomics 1986; 1(2): 127-136.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Elsevier Publishing)

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Abstract

Though worker training is often chosen as a means to reduce the risk of low back pain if involved in lifting activities, the effect on a worker's lifting posture is rarely reported. This paper describes a video analysis method of recording lifting postures and the results of one evaluation of a training program specifically designed to modify lifting postures. It is concluded that a four-hour training program had beneficial but minor effects on the lifting techniques used by healthy workers in a warehouse when handling relatively light to moderate loads (i.e., 85% of loads lifted were below 30 pounds).