Pushing and pulling: an assessment tool for occupational health and safety practitioners

What is it about?

The article presents a newly developed tool to facilitate occupational health and safety practitioners when assessing or designing manual pushing and pulling operations. The article presents the scientific basis for the development of the tool.

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Why is it important?

Pushing and pulling constitutes a large proportion of manual handling operations, and only a few assessment tools exists, and even fewer targeting the actual hand force.