Ergonomic Partnership To Address Treefruit Worker Injury

人体工学合作解决树果工人受伤问题

• 批准号: 6915001
• 负责人: JOHN A MILES
• 金额: $ 20.98万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-30 至 2007-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6915001
• 关键词: agriculture worker; biomechanics; clinical research; cooperative study; ergonomics; health education; human subject; injury prevention; occupational disease /disorder; occupational health /safety; outcomes research

This ergonomics field study will involve multiple agricultural community interests as partners in planning, conducting and evaluating field research and in disseminating results. The project's goals are to significantly reduce or eliminate identified ergonomic risk factors, reduce associated negative health outcomes, and improve community partners capacity to understand and use ergonomics methods to address hazards in hand harvest of treefruit crops and ergonomics risk factors. These risk factors are: ladder use and safety, manual handling of awkward and heavy loads, and highly repetitive hand removal of fruit. Target beneficiaries are farm workers, an underserved population cited as a Special Target Population in the National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives and in the NORA guidelines. Project Specific Aims are to: 1) To scientifically document and describe ergonomics risk factors involved in hand harvest of treefruit, we will: a) develop detailed ergonomics job descriptions of hand harvest in 12 commodities; b) utilize biomechanical, metabolic, and postural stress measures to describe ladder use, manual load handling, and repetitive picking in detail; c) assess the incidence and types of injuries associated with hand harvest risk factors. 2) To develop and evaluate field practical applications of known controls that eliminate or significantly reduce targeted hand harvest risk factors, we will: a) share proven concepts with cooperating workers, growers, contractors, safety practitioners, and interest groups making up the treefruit community; b) modify effective intervention applications to ensure field practicability; c) conduct cooperative controlled field trials of cooperatively selected intervention applications; d) statistically compare individual intervention and control conditions. 3) Because interventions are often combined in the workplace, we will scientifically test the impact of selected interventions combined together on targeted hand harvest risk factors by: a) conducting cooperative hand harvest intervention trials with treefruit production partners; b) statistically comparing combined intervention conditions and control conditions in terms of ergonomics, injury symptoms, and productivity measures. 4) To improve community-based understanding of ergonomics methods and improve intervention practices in hand harvest of treefruit, we will: a) provide training and workplace experience with ergonomics methods to cooperating partners; b) provide community ergonomics information and training; c) assess perceived adoptability of interventions; d) communicate project findings to treefruit and other agricultural industry groups, to workers and community interest groups, and other safety and injury researchers.

这项人体工学实地研究将涉及多个农业社区作为合作伙伴参与规划、开展和评估实地研究以及传播结果。该项目的目标是显着减少或消除已确定的人体工程学风险因素，减少相关的负面健康结果，并提高社区合作伙伴理解和使用人体工程学方法来解决手工收获树果作物和人体工程学风险因素的能力。这些风险因素包括：梯子的使用和安全、手动搬运笨拙和重物以及高度重复地手动搬运水果。目标受益人是农场 工人是服务不足的人群，被国家健康促进和疾病预防目标和 NORA 指南列为特殊目标人群。 项目的具体目标是： 1) 为了科学地记录和描述手工采摘树果所涉及的人体工程学风险因素，我们将： a) 对 12 种商品的手工收获制定详细的人体工程学工作描述； b) 利用生物力学、代谢和姿势压力测量来详细描述梯子的使用、手动负载搬运和重复拣选； c) 评估与手工收获风险因素相关的伤害发生率和类型。 2) 为了开发和评估已知控制措施的现场实际应用，消除或显着减少目标手工收获风险因素，我们将： a) 与合作工人、种植者、承包商、安全从业者和构成树果社区的利益团体分享经过验证的概念； b) 修改有效的干预应用以确保现场实用性； c) 对合作选择的干预应用进行合作控制现场试验； d) 统计比较个体干预和控制条件。 3) 由于干预措施通常在工作场所结合使用，因此我们将通过以下方式科学地测试所选干预措施组合在一起对目标手部收获风险因素的影响： a) 与树果生产合作伙伴开展合作性手工采收干预试验； b) 统计比较组合干预条件和控制条件： 人体工程学、伤害症状和生产力衡量标准。 4) 提高社区对人体工程学方法的理解并改善干预 手工采摘树果的做法，我们将： a) 向合作伙伴提供人体工学方法的培训和工作场所经验； b) 提供社区人体工程学信息和培训； c) 评估干预措施的可采用性； d) 将项目结果传达给树果集团和其他农业产业团体，以 工人和社区利益团体，以及其他安全和伤害研究人员。