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Article: Does the NIOSH lifting equation add up? (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
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- Modern Materials Handling
- Article date:
- June 1, 1995
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When analyzing manual lifting tasks, you can't do it just by the numbers. Using the NIOSH equation and other tools appropriately is the key.
Since the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) published its original equation in 1981 for calculating recommended weights for manual lifting tasks, countless companies have used the equation to identify those tasks that have a risk of low back injuries.
Recent findings by researchers in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Ohio State University (OSU), however, suggest that both the original equation and the revised version (1991) may be limited in their predictive powers for ...