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From September of last year in Italy we make professional trainings within the ‘Ergonomic Project’. This project forecasts many initiatives about ‘The ergonomic design of an assembly workplace using hand-held power tools’. These initiatives take place in cooperation with important trade associations, institutional offices, companies, certified European ergonomic experts, etc., and they represent an important opportunity to know the risk factors of the tightening process (efforts and repeated movements, manual handling of the weights, vibrations at hand-arm system) and the solutions of an ergonomic design of the workplace. Within the ‘Ergonomic Project’ we realised the CD-ROM ’The ergonomic design of an assembly workplace using hand-held power tools’; it is an instrument which is intended for workplace designers, safety and production managers. Together with the CD-ROM there is also the booklet “How to use
hand-held air screwdrivers correctly to prevent any possible disease of the
upper limbs”. It represents a valid synthesis in support of training courses as foreseen by the Directives of the European Community and also an instrument to give workers a better culture on safety. Now we are thinking to extend the ‘Ergonomic Project’ to foreign countries, by carrying out the CD-ROM and the booklet in English. We think they represent valid instruments for our foreign distributors and customers to improve the abilities related to skeletal-muscle pathologies derived from repetitive movements and to know the prevention measures to design correct ergonomic workplaces.
We anticipate that the next FiamZine will be dedicated exclusively to ergonomic.
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