Affiliation:
1. Department of Industrial Engineering Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas
Abstract
The application of safety concepts in the industrial environment has gained momentum especially in the area of manual materials handling. Manual materials handling is a priority concern due to the high percentage of industrial injuries that result from such tasks. Industry needs an approach to establish human lifting capability in order to properly design jobs within these capacities. With the assumption that there is a relationship between an individual's lifting capacity and his/her injury potential, methods for determining maximum permissable weight of lift are reviewed. With these accomplishments in mind, the future work to be accomplished by the ergonomics community is forecast.