Coupling force-adjusted hand-arm vibration exposure and its long-term associated hazard assessment concerning musculoskeletal disorders - methodological comparisons.

IF 2 3区工程技术 Q3 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Ergonomics Pub Date : 2025-02-28 DOI:10.1080/00140139.2025.2466026

Nastaran Raffler, Uwe Kaulbars, Yi Sun

{"title":"Coupling force-adjusted hand-arm vibration exposure and its long-term associated hazard assessment concerning musculoskeletal disorders - methodological comparisons.","authors":"Nastaran Raffler, Uwe Kaulbars, Yi Sun","doi":"10.1080/00140139.2025.2466026","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"When holding or carrying vibrating machines, the coupling forces play a major role in transmitting the vibrations to the hand-arm system. In an epidemiologic study, two recommended methods from ISO/TS 15230-2 are used to investigate the relationship between coupling force-adjusted vibration exposures and their related risk of musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb. Therefore, coupling forces have been professionally estimated for 408 machines used by 683 male participants during their entire working life and coupling force-adjusted long-term vibration doses are calculated. Despite different approaches of the two methods, overall lower dose values are correlated to the risk of musculoskeletal disorders if the coupling force was adjusted. Considering the 10% increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders, the original cumulative vibration doses of 19571 m2/s4 fell to 15995 m2/s4 and 18119 m2/s4 according to two different coupling force-adjusted doses. These results show the necessity of consideration of coupling forces, especially for on-body measurements.","PeriodicalId":50503,"journal":{"name":"Ergonomics","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ergonomics","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2025.2466026","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

When holding or carrying vibrating machines, the coupling forces play a major role in transmitting the vibrations to the hand-arm system. In an epidemiologic study, two recommended methods from ISO/TS 15230-2 are used to investigate the relationship between coupling force-adjusted vibration exposures and their related risk of musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb. Therefore, coupling forces have been professionally estimated for 408 machines used by 683 male participants during their entire working life and coupling force-adjusted long-term vibration doses are calculated. Despite different approaches of the two methods, overall lower dose values are correlated to the risk of musculoskeletal disorders if the coupling force was adjusted. Considering the 10% increased risk of musculoskeletal disorders, the original cumulative vibration doses of 19571 m²/s⁴ fell to 15995 m²/s⁴ and 18119 m²/s⁴ according to two different coupling force-adjusted doses. These results show the necessity of consideration of coupling forces, especially for on-body measurements.

查看原文本刊更多论文

耦合力调整手臂振动暴露及其与肌肉骨骼疾病相关的长期危害评估--方法学比较。

在握持或搬运振动机器时，耦合力在将振动传递到手臂系统方面发挥着重要作用。在一项流行病学研究中，采用了 ISO/TS 15230-2 推荐的两种方法来调查耦合力调整振动暴露与上肢肌肉骨骼疾病相关风险之间的关系。因此，对 683 名男性参与者在整个工作期间使用的 408 台机器的耦合力进行了专业估算，并计算出了耦合力调整后的长期振动剂量。尽管两种方法的方法不同，但如果对耦合力进行调整，则总体上较低的剂量值与肌肉骨骼疾病的风险相关。考虑到肌肉骨骼疾病风险增加 10%，根据两种不同的耦合力调整剂量，原始累积振动剂量从 19571 m2/s4 降至 15995 m2/s4 和 18119 m2/s4。这些结果表明，有必要考虑耦合力，尤其是对人体测量而言。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Ergonomics 工程技术-工程：工业

CiteScore

4.60

自引率

12.50%

发文量

147

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Ergonomics, also known as human factors, is the scientific discipline that seeks to understand and improve human interactions with products, equipment, environments and systems. Drawing upon human biology, psychology, engineering and design, Ergonomics aims to develop and apply knowledge and techniques to optimise system performance, whilst protecting the health, safety and well-being of individuals involved. The attention of ergonomics extends across work, leisure and other aspects of our daily lives. The journal Ergonomics is an international refereed publication, with a 60 year tradition of disseminating high quality research. Original submissions, both theoretical and applied, are invited from across the subject, including physical, cognitive, organisational and environmental ergonomics. Papers reporting the findings of research from cognate disciplines are also welcome, where these contribute to understanding equipment, tasks, jobs, systems and environments and the corresponding needs, abilities and limitations of people. All published research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by independent expert referees.