NIOSH Lifting Guidelines- ENGLISH

Job Title

Model Inputs: Enter Data Multipliers: Model Outputs:

Horizontal Location (H) in HM = Recommended Weight Limit (RWL):
(min 10", max 25") (10" is best)

Vertical Location (V) in VM =

lb.
(min 0", max 70") (30" is best)
Lifting Index (LI = Load/RWL):
Travel Distance (D) in DM =
(min 10", max 70") (10" is best)
0.00
Angle of Asymmetry (A) deg AM =
(min 0°, max 135°) (0 is best)
Frequency Independent RWL:
Coupling CM =
(1=good, 2=fair, 3=poor) (1 is best) lb.

Duration hr(s) Dur = Frequency Independent LI:

(Enter 1, 2 or 8 hrs. only) (1 is best)
0.00
Frequency l/m FM =
(min 0.2, max 15 lifts/min) (0.2 is best) Recommendations:

Load Weight lb

NOTE: The NIOSH guidelines in this Microsoft Excel Workbook are derived from a paper titled "Revised NIOSH Equation for
the Design and Evaluation of Manual Lifting Tasks" published in Ergonomics (Waters, Putz-Anderson, Garg, and Fine, 1993).

Revised NIOSH Lifting Guidelines Copyright 2002 by Humantech, Inc.

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Revised NIOSH Lifting Guidelines - METRIC 10 25.4

Job Title 70 177.8

Model Inputs: Multipliers: Model Outputs:

Horizontal Location (H) cm HM = Recommended Weight Limit (RWL):
(min 25, max 64) (25 is best)

Vertical Location (V) cm VM =

Kg
(min 0, max 178) (75 is best)
Lifting Index (LI = Load/RWL):
Travel Distance (D) cm DM =
(min 25, max 178) (25 is best)
0.00
Angle of Asymmetry (A) deg AM =
(min 0°, max 135°) (0 is best)
Frequency Independent RWL:
Coupling CM =
(1=good, 2=fair, 3=poor) (1 is best) Kg

Duration hr(s) Dur = Frequency Independent LI:

(Enter 1, 2 or 8 hrs. only) (1 is best)
0.00
Frequency l/m FM = 0.00
(min 0.2 lifts/min) (0.2 is best) Recommendations:

Load Weight kg

NOTE: The revised NIOSH guidelines in this Microsoft Excel Workbook are derived from a paper titled "Revised NIOSH
Equation for the Design and Evaluation of Manual Lifting Tasks" published in Ergonomics (Waters, Putz-Anderson, Garg, and
Fine, 1993).

Revised NIOSH Lifting Guidelines - METRIC Copyright 2002 by Humantech, Inc.