PMID- 27497776
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170508
LR  - 20200514
IS  - 2228-7809 (Electronic)
IS  - 2228-7795 (Print)
IS  - 2228-7795 (Linking)
VI  - 16
IP  - 2
DP  - 2016 Spring
TI  - Integrating the Ergonomics Techniques with Multi Criteria Decision Making as a 
      New Approach for Risk Management: An Assessment of Repetitive Tasks -Entropy Case 
      Study.
PG  - 85-9
AB  - BACKGROUND: Nowadays, the health work decision makers need to analyze a huge 
      amount of data and consider many conflicting evaluation criteria and 
      sub-criteria. Therefore, an ergonomic evaluation in the work environment in order 
      to the control occupational disorders is considered as the Multi Criteria 
      Decision Making (MCDM) problem. In this study, the ergonomic risks factors, which 
      may influence health, were evaluated in a manufacturing company in 2014. Then 
      entropy method was applied to prioritize the different risk factors. METHODS: 
      This study was done with a descriptive-analytical approach and 13 tasks were 
      included from total number of employees who were working in the seven halls of an 
      ark opal manufacturing (240). Required information was gathered by the 
      demographic questionnaire and Assessment of Repetitive Tasks (ART) method for 
      repetitive task assessment. In addition, entropy was used to prioritize the risk 
      factors based on the ergonomic control needs. RESULTS: The total exposure score 
      based on the ART method calculated was equal to 30.07 +/-12.43. Data analysis 
      illustrated that 179 cases (74.6% of tasks) were in the high level of risk area 
      and 13.8% were in the medium level of risk. ART- entropy results revealed that 
      based on the weighted factors, higher value belongs to grip factor and the lowest 
      value was related to neck and hand posture and duration. CONCLUSIONS: Based on 
      the limited financial resources, it seems that MCDM in many challenging 
      situations such as control procedures and priority approaches could be used 
      successfully. Other MCDM methods for evaluating and prioritizing the ergonomic 
      problems are recommended.
FAU - Khandan, Mohammad
AU  - Khandan M
AD  - Department of Ergonomics, Faculty of Health, Qom University of Medical Sciences, 
      Qom, Iran.
FAU - Nili, Majid
AU  - Nili M
AD  - Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Management, Qom university, Qom, 
      Iran.
FAU - Koohpaei, Alireza
AU  - Koohpaei A
AD  - Department of Occupational Health & Work Health Research Center, Faculty of 
      Health, Qom University of Medical Sciences, Qom, Iran. koohpaei@muq.ac.ir.
FAU - Mosaferchi, Saeedeh
AU  - Mosaferchi S
AD  - Department of Ergonomics, Faculty of Health, Tehran University of Medical 
      Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Iran
TA  - J Res Health Sci
JT  - Journal of research in health sciences
JID - 101480094
SB  - IM
MH  - *Decision Making
MH  - *Entropy
MH  - Ergonomics/*standards
MH  - Hand
MH  - Humans
MH  - Manufacturing Industry
MH  - Muscle Contraction
MH  - Neck
MH  - Occupational Diseases/etiology/*prevention & control
MH  - Occupational Exposure/*adverse effects
MH  - Posture
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - Risk Factors
MH  - *Risk Management
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - *Task Performance and Analysis
MH  - Work
PMC - PMC7189933
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Assessment of Repetitive Tasks Method
OT  - Entropy
OT  - Multiple Criteria Decision Making
OT  - Occupational ergonomics
COIS- Authors declare that have no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2016/08/09 06:00
MHDA- 2017/05/10 06:00
PMCR- 2016/06/12
CRDT- 2016/08/08 06:00
PHST- 2015/11/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/06/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/02/22 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/08/08 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/08/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/05/10 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/06/12 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 2372 [pii]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Res Health Sci. 2016 Spring;16(2):85-9.