Lifting and carrying

The tool

(AUVA – Austrian Workers Compensation Board)

The demand for a concept for workplace analysis in connection with vertebral column stress has been the main reason for development of the originally software Apalys to meet the increasing and demanding requirements in the field of industrial safety. The basic idea was to shoot a video recording at the workplace to be analyzed by means of a videocamera. Single images of interest are digitized and processed by the program. Spine problems caused by lifting and carrying heavy loads during occupational activities are frequent diseases. Apart from load and exposure time it is the body posture that has a high influence…