When reviewing the literature, various methods are found to assess the postures, movements and forces exerted while performing a job and their effect on the physical capacity and capability of the person. Survey methods have been developed to gather information about the musculoskeletal complaints reported by
To allow easy identification of the posture ranges from the diagrams, each body segment is presented in the sagittal plane. If a posture cannot be represented in this way, for example when abduction occurs, the scoring to be adopted is described beside the diagram.
the working population’. Kemmlert and Kilbom” developed a checklist of questions which links risk factors at work with information about operator’s reports of body part discomfort. Methods to evaluate the working P osture are also reported upon, either by observation’ .l*, systems”? videotape, optical or frame-grabbing The use of task analysis to evaluate the forces exerted, frequency of movements and working postures adopted is reported by