Investigation of Work-Related Disorders by Rapid Upper Limb Assessment

Ergonomics is considered as one among the major problematic issues faced by the manufacturing industries, which causes musculoskeletal disorders there by affecting the normal health of employees. The paper emphasizes on the ergonomic aspects in bearing manufacturing industry where heat treatment, grinding, honing, assembly, inspection and packing are done. The study and analysis of various ergonomic issues are done by the help of ergonomic tools. Many ergonomic issues are being emerging from different manufacturing industries, which have both direct and indirect effect on the industries and the society. Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) is used for analyzing the different human body postures by observing the task, providing scores for the postures, processing the scores, & determining the final score. ErgoFellow software is used for consolidating the results of RULA. NIOSH lifting equation is used for analyzing ergonomic risks involved in the lifting procedure.