Journal of Biosystems Engineering

Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery (한국농업기계학회)
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Analysis of Physiological Bio-information, Human Physical Activities and Load of Lumbar Spine during the Repeated Lifting Work

반복적인 들어올리기 작업시 작업자의 생체정보, 인체활동량 및 허리부하 분석

  • Received : 2010.07.17
  • Accepted : 2010.09.24
  • Published : 2010.10.25
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Abstract

Workers in the agricultural industry have been exposed to many work-related musculoskeletal disorders. So, our objectives in this study were to measure and analyze worker's physiological bio-information to reduce musculoskeletal disorders in relation to agricultural works. We investigated worker's bio-information of physiological signals during the repeated lifting work such as body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, physical activity, and heart rate variability. Moreover, we analyzed the workloads of lumbar spine during the repeated lifting work using the 3-axis acceleration and angular velocity sensors. The changes of body temperature was not significant, but the mean heart rate increased from 90/min to 116/min significantly during 30 min of repeated lifting work (p<0.05). The average worker's physical activity(energy consumption rate) was 206 kcal/70kg/h during the repeated lifting work. The workers' acute stress index was more than 80, which indicated a stressful work. Also, the maximum shear force on the disk (L5/S1) of a worker's lumbar spine in static state was 500N, and the maximum inertia moment was 139 $N{\cdot}m$ in dynamic state.

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