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Back Injury Prevention
This resource provides answers the following questions:
What is the most likely kind of injury resulting from manual materials handling? How can we prevent back injury resulting from Manual Materials Handling (MMH)? How does organization of the work flow reduce the risk for back injury due to MMH? How does job design/redesign reduce the risk for back injury due to MMH? How do you eliminate heavy MMH? How can we decrease MMH demands? How can we reduce stressful body movements in MMH? How do we set up a proper work pace, and a beneficial ratio of work to rest breaks, to reduce the risk for back pain due to MMH? How can we improve the environment to reduce the risk for injury due to MMH? How effective is pre-placement screening in back injury prevention? Does training reduce back injuries?
MSD Job Title/Task: Manager
Topic:Manual Materials Handling
Back Care
MSD Prevention
Document Type:GuidelineYear:2007
Source:CCOHSView Source Details
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