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A hierarchy of risk control measures for prevention of work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs)
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Macdonald, Wendy |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | The conventional ‘hierarchy of control’ has been developed for use in prioritising risk control measures to achieve maximum effectiveness, but when applied to the prevention of MSDs, such an approach is too narrowly focused to be optimal. In particular, it does not support the identification and control of psychosocial hazards for MSDs, and it fails to distinguish between and effectively prioritise different types of behavioural control measures. As James Reason’s approach to safety management clearly demonstrates, the behaviour of managers and designers is likely to play a critical role in risk management, because of their capacity to generate ‘latent failures’ within an organisation. It is therefore important that behaviour-based risk control measures that target managers (and other people with a high degree of influence over workplace risk levels) are differentiated from measures that target workers who have relatively little influence on risk. To address these problems, a different kind of control hierarchy is proposed, based within a macroergonomics model of the work system and taking account of research evidence identifying the main hazards for MSD risk. The importance of applying this hierarchy in a highly participative way is emphasised. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://arrow.latrobe.edu.au:8080/vital/access/services/Download/latrobe:2640/SOURCE1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
