3.Methodology
A survey of electronics industries was done to find out the
causes of MSDs resulted due to adoption of wrong postures
or lifting techniques, by worker during manual lifting tasks.
Posture analysis techniques were used to find out the same.
First the most difficult and frequently used task was found
out. For this it was observed and asked from the workers, for
difficult to do manual lifting task in his daily routine. The
most difficult tasks felt by workers were videotaped from
different angles. Picture frames were taken from these videos.
Each frame of a task was further analyzed by using RULA
and REBA techniques. The angles of each body postures
were found out for each picture frame. Delmia software was
used for finding angles. The RULA score were found out in
Delmia software and for finding REBA score, standard
REBA score sheet was used.