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  2. Ergonomic hazard - Wikipedia

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    Awkward posture Some farmworker jobs require bending, stooping, squatting , and kneeling to pick fruit and vegetables when working in fields and orchards. Working in these setting may also prompt the use of ladders to pick fruits from trees and require farmworkers to work with their arms above shoulder level.

  3. List of human positions - Wikipedia

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    The position is also used for sitting on analogous vehicles, such as bicycles, motorcycles, or unicycles, and on furniture, such as certain types of seating, and bidets. The posture is also used on some types of specialized workbenches (such as a shaving horse). By definition, an essential feature is having one leg on each side of whatever is ...

  4. Musculoskeletal disorder - Wikipedia

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    Because workers maintain the same posture over long work days and often several years, even natural postures like standing can lead to MSDs like low back pain. Postures which are less natural, such as twisting of or tension in the upper body, are typically contributors to the development of MSDs due to the unnatural biomechanical load of these ...

  5. List of gestures - Wikipedia

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    Awkward turtle is a two handed gesture used to mark a moment as awkward. One hand is placed flat atop the other with both palms facing down, fingers extended outward from the hand and thumbs stuck out to the sides. The thumbs are rotated to symbolize flippers. [35] Batsu.

  6. Ergonomics - Wikipedia

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    The term ergonomics (from the Greek ἔργον, meaning "work", and νόμος, meaning "natural law") first entered the modern lexicon when Polish scientist Wojciech Jastrzębowski used the word in his 1857 article Rys ergonomji czyli nauki o pracy, opartej na prawdach poczerpniętych z Nauki Przyrody (The Outline of Ergonomics; i.e. Science of Work, Based on the Truths Taken from the ...

  7. Low back pain - Wikipedia

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    Workplace ergonomics associated with low back pain include lifting, bending, vibration and physically demanding work, as well as prolonged sitting, standing and awkward postures. [26] Current smokers – and especially those who are adolescents – are more likely to have low back pain than former smokers, and former smokers are more likely to ...

  8. He doesn’t even go here! Jonathan Bennett opened up about what was totally fetch about the virtual Mean Girls reunion earlier this month and which moments were uncomfortable. ‘Mean Girls ...

  9. Manual handling of loads - Wikipedia

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    Wrist position; The body parts assigned to group B are: Neck position; Trunk position; Legs; Using the score of each body part posture in group A, locate the score in table A to assign a group A posture score. This score is then added to the muscle use score and the force/load score which assigns the wrist and arm Score.