11 POSTURAL RISK ANALYSIS

Maintaining or repeating awkward or sustained postures during an activity can cause fatigue and contribute to the development of musculoskeletal disorders. Adopting unsuitable postures is therefore one of the risk factors that should be considered when evaluating an activity. Reducing exposure to these postures is an essential preventive measure.

Ergoniza Intelligent evaluates postures using three complementary procedures based on different criteria. The first calculates the discomfort associated with the posture of each joint using the procedure described in Section 11.2. The other two apply the REBA and LUBA methods to assess the risk arising from adopted postures; both are described in Section 11.3.