Manual handling training: an investigation of current practice

Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are the most common cause of severe long-term pain and physical disability affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide. In industrialised countries, about one third of all health-related absences from work are due to MSDs. In the UK, the 1992 Manual Handling Operations Regulations (UK) set out a hierarchy of measures aimed at reducing the risks presented by manual handling; nevertheless concerns have been raised regarding the suitability of manual handling training and it’s effectiveness in reducing MSDs among employees. The study outlined here investigated current practice in relation to manual handling training within the UK and aimed to establish whether such training was considered by organisations to be effective. One hundred and fifty telephone interviews were conducted in total comprising 120 interviews with representatives from UK organisations and 30 interviews with representatives from UK training consultancies. The findings suggest that manual handling training is considered to be more effective if it is tailored to meet specific task and industry needs. The results from this study have informed new guidelines for effective manual handling training. It is hoped that these guidelines will be useful for other nations

Manual handling in healthcare

Patient handling is a known cause of musculoskeletal risk for healthcare staff. A range of ergonomic and other approaches have been used to try to reduce the effects of these tasks, e.g. risk assessment and management, training, equipment provision, culture change. A European collaboration (European Panel on Patient Handling Ergonomics) was formed in 2004 to share information about research on patient handling and develop research ideas for European collaborations. Three collaborations will be described. The first reviewed the implementation of the European Union Directive on Manual handling for patient handling; the second reports the development of a Technical Report (TR ISO/CD 12296) for the manual handling of people in the healthcare sector; and the third describes an Intervention Evaluation Tool that has been produced to allow the evaluation of both single factor and multi-faceted interventions for patient handling

CORRELATION BIOMECHANICAL METHOD OF MANUAL MATERIAL HANDLING WITH LOW BACK PAIN

Low back pain is feeling of pain in the lumbosacral and sacroiliac region, often spreading to the upper and lower limbs. Manual material handling (MMH) is still needed because it can be done in the limited space and dependent of physical activity. If MMH is not ergonomically used, it would cause tissue damage, due to excessive lifting load. The aimed of research is to determine the relationship of manual material handling with low back pain. The study design was observational analytic with cross sectionalapproach. Population were all of unloading workers in the Marine Nusantara Port, Kendari, as many as 268 people. The purposive sampling technique was used to recruit 120 respondents. Data was analyzed using Chi Square test, as well as alternative of Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Results of study showed a correlation between manual material handling with the incidence of low back pain (p= 0.003). The other risk factor, such as age (p= 0.537), smoking (p = 0.988 ), exercise habits (p= 0.854), overweight (p=0.306) did not significantly correlated with low back pain. It can be concluded that manual material handling is the determinant  factor of  low back pain, among Marine Nusantara Port, Kendari.  Key Words: manual material handling, biomechanical methodes, low back pain, unloading workers, physical activity, Nusantara Marine Por

Simulated Manual Interaction as the Conceptual Base for Reference and Predication: A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of the Integration Between Handling Gestures and Speech

Prior research on representational hand gestures has shown that an object’s affordances influence both the likelihood that it will be indexed in a representational gesture, and the form of the gesture used to refer to it. Objects which afford being held are associated with higher gesture rates than objects which do not afford being held. Further research has shown that the ways humans prototypically interact with an object also influence the reference technique used to refer to that object through a hand gesture. An object that people interact with manually will tend to be indexed through a gesture imitating the action associated with interacting with the object (called an acting gesture), while an object that people do not normally interact with manually will tend to be indexed through gestures depicting its shape (called molding and drawing gestures). Results from studies looking at neuroimaging and gesture production suggest that these differences in representation techniques are the result of the simulated action of interacting with the referent of the gesture. This aligns with Cognitive Grammar’s claim that an utterance’s profile is construed in relation to its conceptual base. Using data from narrations of the Pear Film, this study proposes a subtype of acting gesture—here termed handling gesture—and analyzes its various grammatical functions. It posits that the handling gesture is used to profile the various elements within a manual interaction event—which include an object that affords manual interaction, an agent, and the action the agent performs on the object. By applying theory from Cognitive Grammar and conceptual integration to an analysis of the handling gesture, this paper argues that handling gestures are used to construe physical objects as participants of manual interaction events and to establish an utterance’s schematic structure, which is elaborated by the speech

Keluhan Musculoskeletal Disorders dan Kelelahan Kerja pada Tenaga Kerja Bongkar Muat di Pelabuhan Tenau

Manual material handling activity is a job related to lifting, moving, pulling, and holding goods that rely on human labor, includes loading and unloading goods at the Labor of Tenau Kupang. This research aimed to know to determine the relationship between age, smoking habit, manual material handling activity, and temperature of the environment with complaints of musculoskeletal disorders and work fatigue of the labor at Tenau Kupang Harbour. The kind of research was a quantitative study with a cross-sectional approach. The Population of this research is 36 people. The taking of the sample was done by a total sampling method that is 36 people. The test used was the Chi-square test. The results of the research showed that 21 people (58,3%) suffer from musculoskeletal disorders and 19 people (52,8%) suffer from work fatigue. The results showed that as many as 29 people (80.6%) experienced MSDs complaints and as many as 25 people (69.4%) experienced work fatigue. The analysis showed that there was no relationship between age and smoking habits with MSDs complaints, while the risk level of MMH and ambient temperature had a relationship with MSDs complaints. There is no relationship between age, smoking habits, the level of risk of MMH with work fatigue, while ambient temperature has a significant relationship with work fatigue. Therefore, it is advisable for workers to stretch their muscles during breaks so as to reduce MSDs complaints. Meanwhile, the workers cooperative union needs to provide drinking water facilities in order to reduce worker dehydration

Manual Handling in Aged Care: Impact of Environment-related Interventions on Mobility

The manual handling of people (MHP) is known to be associated with high incidence of musculoskeletal disorders for aged care staff. Environment-related MHP interventions, such as appropriate seated heights to aid sit-to-stand transfers, can reduce staff injury while improving the patient\u27s mobility. Promoting patient mobility within the manual handling interaction is an endorsed MHP risk control intervention strategy. This article provides a narrative review of the types of MHP environmental controls that can improve mobility, as well as the extent to which these environmental controls are considered in MHP risk management and assessment tools. Although a range of possible environmental interventions exist, current tools only consider these in a limited manner. Development of an assessment tool that more comprehensively covers environmental strategies in MHP risk management could help reduce staff injury and improve resident mobility through auditing existing practices and guiding the design of new and refurbished aged care facilities

Hubungan Antara Aktivitas Manual Handling Dengan Kelelahan Kerja Pada Tenaga Kerja Pembuatan Batu Bata

All kinds of work will result in work fatigue. Fatigue will decrease performance and increase the level of work errors. Work fatigue is a common health problem among workers. One of the causes of work fatigue is manual handling activity. Manual handling activities carried out by brick making laborers in Doplang village are heavy and require good physical strength, morale and physical endurance. This study aims to analyze the relationship between manual handling activity with work fatigue on brick making labor in Doplang Village.Boyolali Regency. The type of this research is observational analytic with cross sectional approach. The research population is brick making worker in Doplangantung Village 98 people taken with proportional random sampling technique. Analysis of data using the Chi-square test. The results showed there was a relationship between manual handling activity with work fatigue sig results (p-value) of 0.000 <0.005

Manual Setting

Eyes tired from new media, projections, backlit technologies and digitised images? Enter the world of raw, fresh, immediate sketchbooks, held in the hand, turned with the fingers. In Manual Setting visitors leaf through sketchbooks together with exhibitors: artists, scientists and writers. This enacts the viewing of a notebook as a hand-held, shared and performative activity. Who is revealed during this process of showing and being shown? An enquiry is made concerning intimacy; and the border between personal and private; as well as the provisionally sketched and the finished. Books can often only be exhibited in cases, boxes or frames one page at a time. Handling the sketchbook/notebook repairs the loss of human contact with these objects. There can be a reconciliation with the manual practice of showing to others, activating lively discussion between maker and audience. In the house/gallery setting, several people who keep notebooks, (or what they consider to be sketchbook material), will be situated around the building. These include Dino Alfier, Eleanor Bowen and Paul Ryan (who co-curated this project with Danielle Arnaud), as well as a changing list of invited guests. Saturday 5th February is �Archaeology Day� with guest exhibitors Simon Callery and Dr Helen Wickstead. See website for guests and themes on other days

Is age more than manual material handling associated with lumbar vertebral body and disc changes? A cross-sectional multicentre MRI study

Conflicting evidence exists to what extent manual material handling (MMH) causes lumbar disc disease, lack of evidence exist that this effect takes place especially at L5-S1 level, where the greatest moment occurs. The aim was to assess if lumbar vertebral body and disc changes are more common in people whose job involves significant MMH and, if so, to evaluate if lumbar vertebral body and disc changes are more prevalent in the lower part of the lumbar spine (L4-L5 and L5-S1)

Sample Police Officers Duty Manual

A police organization is that part of the government responsibile for enforcing laws and ordinances adopted by elected representatives of the people. The letter of the law determines what a police officer m ust do to discharge the obligation im posed by his oath, but it does not encom pass all of the circum stances which arise in the practical application of these written principles. Understanding of human behavior and application of comm on sense are fundamental to the successful attainment of police obj ectives. These alone, however, are not sufficient to insure the proper handling of every incident. There must be standards of quality and rules for procedure and conduct to serve as guides. These standards, rules and regulations are set forth in this Manual. This Manual prescribes the manner in which m embers of the Police Department will conduct them selves in discharging their sworn obligations. Violations of provisions of this Manual will constitute grounds for disciplinary action