Musculoskeletal Risk Assessment

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Musculoskeletal Risk Assessment

• Emma Collins
• Occupational Health Physiotherapist/Moving
  Handling Practitioner

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• Most workplace injuries involve musculoskeletal
  disorders, 8.3 million working days lost in
  2013/14
• Repetitive movement patterns and habitual working
  positions condition the muscular and nervous
  system into states of tension that lead to
  injury.
• At sub-clinical levels, chronic muscular tension
  is debilitating, creates pain and depletes the
  body's energy reserves.
• At clinically significant levels, heightened
  muscular tension causes muscle pain, joint
  compression, and nerve impingements that don't
  readily yield to manipulative clinical
  approaches.
• While it's true heightened muscular tension
  results from injury, it also predisposes people
  to injury

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Why objectively assess?

• objective/?b'd??kt?v/
• adjective
• (of a person or their judgement) not influenced
  by personal feelings or opinions in considering
  and representing facts

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RULA and REBA

• Rapid Upper Limb Assessment and Rapid Entire Body
  Assessment
• 2 commonly used Ax tools from the 1990s
• Valid and reliable
• Free, easy to use
• Simple single end score
• McAtamney Corlett, Applied Ergonomics 1993,
  24(2), 91-99
• Hignett and McAtamney, 2000

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