Sue Hignett

TL;DR: This technical note details the preliminary stage in the development of a postural analysis tool, Rapid Entire Body Assessment, specifically designed to be sensitive to the type of unpredictable working postures found in health care and other service industries.

TL;DR: This paper presents a procedure for scoring postures for assessment and describes the steps taken to calculate the REBA Score and process the scores.

TL;DR: This summary draws together the findings form over 80 studies published over three decades, finding that nursing is among the high risk occupations with respect to low back problems, and one of the popular notions is generally proven, that more frequent patient handling appears to correlate with increased incidence of low back pain.

TL;DR: There is strong evidence that interventions predominantly based on technique training have no impact on working practices or injury rates and these could be used to form the basis of a generic intervention programme, with additional local priorities identified through the risk assessment process.

TL;DR: Three cases are described from Canada and Japan where the participatory project was led by occupational health teams, suggesting that occupational health practitioners can have an important role to play in participatory ergonomics projects.