2005 ACGIH Lifting TLV [electronic resource] : Employee-Friendly Presentation and Guidance for Professional Judgment

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 613.2 Dietetics
• Thông tin xuất bản: Los Alamos, N.M. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Los Alamos National Laboratory ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: Size: 14 p. : , digital, PDF file.
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 261973
• Chủ đề: 1. 60 applied life sciences; 2. 99 general and miscellaneous; 3. Analysis and assessment; 4. Ergonomic evaluations

Tóm tắt

 The American Council of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) Lifting Threshold Limit Values (TLVs) provide a tool to reduce incidence of low back and shoulder injuries. However, application of the TLV is too complicated for floor-level workers and relies on professional judgment to assess commonly encountered tasks. This paper presents an Employee-Friendly Simplified Format of the TLV that has been adapted from Table 1 of the Lifting TLV presented in the 2005 TLVs and BEIs Based on the Documentation of the Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances and Physical Agents & Biological Exposure Indices. This simplified format can be employed by floor-level workers to self-assess lifting tasks. The Ergonomics Project Team also provides research-based guidance for applying professional judgment consistent with standard industry practice: Extended Work Shifts ? Reduce weight by 20% for shifts lasting 8 to 12 hours
  Constrained Lower Body Posture ? Reduce weight by 25% when lifting in such postures
  Infrequently Performed Lifts ? Lift up to 15 lbs. ?3 lifts per hour within the zones marked ?No safe limit for repetitive lifting? in the TLVs Table 1
  Asymmetry beyond 30� ? Reduce weight by 10 lbs. for lifts with up to 60� asymmetry from sagittal plane.