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Analysis of Laboral and Non-laboral Risk Factors of Workers Diagnosed with Lumbar Pathologies. Study of Cases

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An analysis is presented of occupational and non-occupational risk factors of four workers diagnosed with lumbar pathologies in a pet food manufacturing company. Through a survey, individual aspects were investigated, exposure to risk factors present in the working conditions of the task, the environment and organization, as well as extra-labor factors according to scientific literature. Occupational antecedents were found by carrying out load handling activities and exposure to factors of the three dimensions described. Regarding the extra-labor component, they have carried out activities similar to those outside the working day. The above is corroborated according to literature given that structures of the lumbar spine can be subjected to excessive compression and shear forces plus the presence of muscle fatigue, amplified by job characteristics, organizational and extra-labor aspects. It is required to determine criticality levels of these factors and more studies in this regard.

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  1. Virtual and Distance Education, UVD, Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Bogotá, Colombia

    Wilder Alfonso Hernández Duarte & Luis Gabriel Gutiérrez Bernal

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  1. Industrial Engineering and Management System, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Waldemar Karwowski

  2. Department IELM, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Ravindra S. Goonetilleke

  3. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea (Republic of)

    Shuping Xiong

  4. Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands

    Richard H. M. Goossens

  5. Okayama University, Okayama, Japan

    Atsuo Murata

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Hernández Duarte, W.A., Gutiérrez Bernal, L.G. (2020). Analysis of Laboral and Non-laboral Risk Factors of Workers Diagnosed with Lumbar Pathologies. Study of Cases. In: Karwowski, W., Goonetilleke, R., Xiong, S., Goossens, R., Murata, A. (eds) Advances in Physical, Social & Occupational Ergonomics. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1215. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51549-2_38

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