PMID- 20978330
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110204
LR  - 20171116
IS  - 1875-9270 (Electronic)
IS  - 1051-9815 (Linking)
VI  - 37
IP  - 3
DP  - 2010
TI  - Posture stress on firefighters and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) 
      associated with repetitive reaching, bending, lifting, and pulling tasks.
PG  - 227-39
LID - 10.3233/WOR-2010-1075 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: These ergonomic evaluations analyze the threat of musculoskeletal 
      injuries primarily due to awkward and extreme postures across two post-fire tasks 
      and a patient care task. PARTICIPANTS: The participants were firefighters and 
      emergency medical technicians (EMTs) in an urban U.S. fire department. METHODS: 
      Ergonomic tools used for the evaluation included the National Institute of 
      Occupational Safety Health (NIOSH) lifting equation, Rapid Entire Body Assessment 
      (REBA), Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA), and anthropometric measurements of 
      equipment and persons. RESULTS: High to very high risks were found for lifting 
      the hose above the shoulder to drain it of excess water and for rolling the hoses 
      on the ground. Extreme risk was found for lifting the hose from chest height to 
      above the shoulders during hose drainage. High risk was found for EMT patient 
      care tasks that require reaching for overhead equipment or seated tasks that 
      require horizontal bending and twisting. CONCLUSIONS: The risk was high enough 
      for these tasks to warrant modification and changes. The recommendations given 
      included creating new mechanical and technical devices, modifying existing 
      devises, and making workers aware of associated risks to reduce the threat of 
      injury.
FAU - Gentzler, Marc
AU  - Gentzler M
AD  - University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. mgentzler@knights.ucf.edu
FAU - Stader, Sally
AU  - Stader S
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Work
JT  - Work (Reading, Mass.)
JID - 9204382
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Back Injuries/*epidemiology/*prevention & control
MH  - Biomechanical Phenomena
MH  - *Emergency Medical Technicians
MH  - Ergonomics
MH  - Female
MH  - *Fires
MH  - Humans
MH  - Lifting/*adverse effects
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Occupations
MH  - *Posture
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - Task Performance and Analysis
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2010/10/28 06:00
MHDA- 2011/02/05 06:00
CRDT- 2010/10/28 06:00
PHST- 2010/10/28 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/10/28 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/02/05 06:00 [medline]
AID - C37653MM876J0374 [pii]
AID - 10.3233/WOR-2010-1075 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Work. 2010;37(3):227-39. doi: 10.3233/WOR-2010-1075.