Overview
- Provides extensive load data spectrum for diverse holding, lifting, pulling, pushing, and carrying of objects
- Presents load-bearing criteria of the lumbar spine for individual actions, daily work, and exposures
- Discusses prevention of biomechanical overload and lumbar spine diseases through manual materials handling
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- manual materials handling
- load-bearing capacity of the lumbar spine
- Daily Exposure Recommendations with low risk in working life
- lifetime overload criteria
- prevention of low-back disorders
- risk assessment of MMH operations
- Dortmund Approach to comparing lumbar load and resilience
- Dortmund Lumbar Load Study DOLLY
- Dortmund Lumbar Load Atlas
- objectifying lumbar load and load-bearing capacity
- extensive spectrum of lumbar-load data
- ergonomic work design
- manual patient handling
- Revised Dortmund Recommendations on maximum compressive forces
- EPILIFT study on lumbar dose-risk associations
- German Spine Study
- prediction of compressive forces on lumbar intervertebral discs
- prediction of shear forces on lumbar intervertebral discs
- biomechanical analysis of lumbar load and lumbar resilience
- 3D dynamic lumbar load prediction via The Dortmunder
About this book
This handbook supports the identification of inappropriate work design in manual materials handling and thus the prevention of overloading the body and of the development of health disorders. The approach at hand, The Dortmund Lumbar Load Atlas, is focussed exclusively on biomechanical aspects of loading, overload criteria and signs of overloading in the form of verifiable low-back diseases due its strikingly frequently affectedness.
Manual materials handling is understood to be the holding, lifting or lowering, pulling or pushing as well as carrying of load objects and thus the application of forces mostly with one or both hands on the item handled. Due to the biomechanical similarity, special handling tasks are also addressed, such as shoveling bulk material, transporting goods via wheelbarrow and moving people manually in the care sector.
The book aims to promote interest in biomechanical approaches and provides information to all persons involved in the design, evaluation and redesign of manual materials handling, e.g. ergonomists, occupational physicians, orthopaedists, employers or researchers, lecturers and students. This handbook enables analysis of manual materials handlings regarding potential lumbar overload and contains the following:
- a comprehensive collection of data on lumbar load in typical manual materials handling activities—a load register on interbranch activities,
- synopses of previously analysed biomechanically challenging occupational activities—a load register on branch-specific activities,
- explanations of the methodological approach to predicting moments and forces as well as their components in relation to the lumbar spine via biomechanical modelling and
- criteria for the evaluation of load data with regard to potential lumbar overloading during single operations, working shifts and the entire occupational life.
Thenew recommendations on maximum daily exposure for lifelong work for both men and women are bridging the former gap of biomechanically justified action frequency limits and now offer the possibility of a completely biomechanical path for risk assessment of manual materials handling. The book provides hence a serious contribution to the objectification of lumbar load and load-bearing capacity aiming at an ergonomic work design of manual materials handling for short- as well as long-term exposures.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Matthias Jäger, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo) at Dortmund University of Technology (Germany), studied Electrical Engineering at the Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany) and moved as a research associate in 1981 to the Ergonomics Department of IfADo. He received his doctoral degree from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Dortmund in 1986 and his habilitation degree with the venia legendi for ergonomics in 2001. He lectured, among others, at the University of Dortmund and the ETH Zurich. At IfADo, he initiated the Dortmund Lumbar Load Study Group in 1995 and became the head of the project group Biomechanics in 2004. A particular interest concerns the dissemination of knowledge via standards (ISO, CEN, DIN), guidelines (WHO, DGAUM Occupational Medicine, GfA Work Science) and as the editor-in-chief of a peer-reviewed journal (Zentralblatt Arbeitsmedizin).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Dortmund Lumbar Load Atlas
Book Subtitle: A Contribution to Objectifying Lumbar Load and Load-Bearing Capacity for an Ergonomic Work Design of Manual Materials Handling
Authors: Matthias Jäger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06349-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06348-0Published: 08 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06351-0Published: 08 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06349-7Published: 07 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 580
Number of Illustrations: 224 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial and Production Engineering, Industrial Design, Human Physiology, Engineering Design