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Recommended Weight Limit For The Worker
Recommended Weight Limit For The Worker
Recommended Weight Limit For The Worker
For this technique, we are going to identify seven variables to calculate the
RWL then we are going to calculate Lifting index (LI). The seven variables are:
LC, Constant level = 23Kg
HM, the Horizontal Multiplier factor = 25/H
VM, the Vertical Multiplier factor = (1-0.003 |V-75|)
DM, the Distance Multiplier factor = (0.82+4.5/D)
FM, the Frequency Multiplier factor = From table
AM, the Asymmetric Multiplier factor = (1-0.0032A)
CM, the Coupling Multiplier factor = From table
Recommended weight limit equation RWL=HM∗VM∗DM∗FM ∗AM∗CM
Lifting index equation LI =Weight of theobject /RWL
Hence: If LI<1, no risks for low back, if LI>1, risks for low back will occur for some workers, if
LI>3, high risks for most of workers.
Example 1:
A worker was assigned to arrange the boxes with weights 7Kg in the shelves as can be seen
from the figure below the worker was injured from the low back because of the lifting task, so
we are going to calculate the RWL and LI to see the risk level for the worker.