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DUTCH: A New Tool for Practitioners for Risk Assessment of Push and Pull Activities

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Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018) (IEA 2018)

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Abstract

Pushing and pulling at work is an undervalued theme within occupational health policy. This is unjustified, because these activities are very common and potentially increase the risk of shoulder symptoms. Gaining insight into the possible health risks of specific push or pull activities at the workplace is a first step towards prevention of musculoskeletal symptoms. Existing instruments proved to be insufficiently suitable to give that insight in a simple way. This was the motivation for developing the Push and Pull Check (DUTCH). This method makes clear whether the push or pull activity is acceptable or not, which risk factors exist, and which measures can reduce the risk. This article describes the operation of the DUTCH, as well as the development of the tool.

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  1. TNO, PO Box 3005, 2301 DA, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Marjolein Douwes & Reinier Könemann

  2. Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Marco Hoozemans

  3. Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases, Coronel Institute of Occupational Health, Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Paul Kuijer

  4. vhp human performance, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Hetty Vermeulen

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  1. University of the Republic of San Marino, San Marino, San Marino

    Sebastiano Bagnara

  2. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Riccardo Tartaglia

  3. Centre for Clinical Risk Management and Patient Safety, Tuscany Region, Florence, Italy

    Sara Albolino

  4. Fraunhofer FKIE, Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Thomas Alexander

  5. International Ergonomics Association, Tokyo, Japan

    Yushi Fujita

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Douwes, M., Könemann, R., Hoozemans, M., Kuijer, P., Vermeulen, H. (2019). DUTCH: A New Tool for Practitioners for Risk Assessment of Push and Pull Activities. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 820. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96083-8_79

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