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The aim of this study was to evaluate the risks in relation to workers’ repetitive movements of the upper limbs, as well as analyze the effects of a reduced work pace on the risk levels in a chicken slaughterhouse. The study was conducted in a slaughterhouse with 3,200 workers, who were divided into two shifts, where 300,000 chickens were slaughtered daily. The OCRA checklist was used to assess 10% of the total workforce during work tasks. The average OCRA checklist score was 18.2 ± 4.8 (moderate risk). Considering the five risk categories proposed by the OCRA method, 2 tasks were deemed high risk (9.5%), 15 presented moderate risk (71.5%) and 4 exhibited low risk (19%). By conducting simulated interventions, it was possible to reduce the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders to very low levels in 19 of the 21 tasks by only decreasing the work pace (−39.8 ± 16.8%).
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dos Reis, D.C., Tirloni, A.S., Moro, A.R.P. (2021). Effectiveness of Reduced Work Pace to Decrease the Risk of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders in a Chicken Slaughterhouse. In: Goonetilleke, R.S., Xiong, S., Kalkis, H., Roja, Z., Karwowski, W., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 273. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80713-9_40
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