Ergonomic improvement of female forest work.
Abstract
Traditional female work activities in forestry, like planting, spreading and clearing around young trees can often not be mechanised. Work design methods to improve the ergonomic situation at the work place must be taken. Beside the classical main stress and strain areas (physically hard work, incorrect ergonomics, climate, use of chemicals) they suffer extra stress caused by house- and sometimes farm work. Multidimensional measuring concepts considering physical and psychical aspects for ergonomic analysis are still unsuccessfully used. The goal of this work is to characterise the stress and strain situation of female forest workers and to develop strategies for ergonomic improvement. The workload and difficulty of various tasks will be recorded with the Job Analysing Procedure (AET). An experimental layout comparing stress and strain areas on females who are doing housework after the job in contrast to women who are part time farmers is developed. The result is a strain prediction model for female forest workers, which is able to predict strain (heart rate) depending on various factors (Temperature, Physical Working Capacity, Index after Lundquist etc.). Based on this model it is possible to show the differences between these two groups of female forest workers.
Publikationen
Körperhaltung mittels Balkencode - Erhebung verbessern.
Autoren: Berger, C. Jahr: 1988
Newspaper / Magazine article
Belastungs- und Beanspruchungssituation bei Forstarbeiterinnen: Evaluierung, Analyse und Verbesserungsmaßnahmen
Autoren: Berger, C. Jahr: 2002
Doctoral Thesis
Project staff
Christiane Tartarotti
Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Christiane Tartarotti
Project Leader
01.01.1999 - 30.04.2000