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In the light of increasing awareness for protection of personal data condition-based analyses in ergonomics will gain more importance. For postures, however, observational personal-based analyses are usually carried out. The article therefore examined whether the relative working position has an influence on working posture, compression load on L5/S1 and electrical muscle activity in order to be used as a condition-based risk factor for future analyses. An empirical study was conducted with 20 subjects. Results revealed that the relative working position on all investigated factors. This allows consolidating that a condition-based analysis is also possible for postures.
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Brandl, C., Mertens, A., Nitsch, V. (2020). The Influence of the Relative Working Position as a Function of Body Dimensions on Working Posture, Compression Load on L5/S1 and Muscle Activity. 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_43
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