Estimation of Energy Expenditure Based on Divided Manual Material Handling Task: Waste Collection Example

Year 2017, Volume: 13 Issue: 1, 51 - 54, 29.03.2017

Erman Çakıt

https://doi.org/10.18466/cbayarfbe.302640

Cited By: 1

Abstract

The objectives of this study were: i) to present an
approach for potential areas of ergonomic analysis software usage and to get
familiar with the usage of this kind of problem assessment by applying the
software to a practical example in a problem area with significant ergonomic
problems to be analyzed. ii) to estimate energy expenditure rates for waste
collection task using the University of Michigan Energy Expenditure Prediction
Program (EEPP) to comfort worker safety and health. iii) to compare with
regression equations in literature to illustrate the performance of the EEPP
software. The assessment will make use of a University of Michigan EEPP to predict
energy expenditure of materials handling tasks to comfort worker safety and
health. A manual waste collection task was selected as a job analysis and the
results will be compared with NIOSH guidelines and regression equations in
literature to illustrate the performance of the EEPP software. The results show
that EEPP software and prediction equation estimated quite close average task
energy rate (kcal/min). This predicted information can be useful for waste
collection job design instead of using oxygen consumption measurement which
takes long time and costly. Furthermore, these results can be used for
recommendations to improve ergonomic factors of the waste collection tasks in
form of a guideline.

Keywords

Energy expenditure, Ergonomic analysis tools, Job analysis, Prediction, Waste collection

References

• Chaffin, D.B. (1972). Some effects of Physical Exertion. Dept. of Ind. And Operations Eng, The university of Michigan.