Question

Discuss a variety of strategies that can be used to identify operations or processes with the potiential to create or affravate MSDs.

Answer 1

In order to find out the operations or processes with the potential to create or aggravate MSDs, we can use the below-mentioned methods=

Review Injury Records=In order to find out the ergonomic issues we can monitor the injury and illness records. This can easily be obtained from the organization's OSHA 300 injury and illness register, 30 reports, compensation records of the employees, register of first aid, reports of the insurance company, near-miss investigation reports, and reporting of the issues by the workers.

Observe Workplace Conditions= The different risk factors can be looked at by monitoring the different organizational operations critically and these can be overcome or managed in the early stage only.

Risk Factors= Work positions and postures ay also cause the chances of MSD injuries, this can also be found by analyzing the frequency of performing certain work, the effort required to perform that work, and the duration of that task. MSDS can result from different risk factors.