Comments on: Contrasting keynotes at ergonomics conference https://safetyatworkblog.com/2017/11/29/contrasting-keynotes-at-ergonomics-conference/ Award winning news, commentary and opinion on workplace health and safety Thu, 30 Nov 2017 01:23:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: OHSIntros https://safetyatworkblog.com/2017/11/29/contrasting-keynotes-at-ergonomics-conference/#comment-15866 Thu, 30 Nov 2017 01:23:10 +0000 https://safetyatworkblog.com/?p=95236#comment-15866 It would be interesting to know how the ergonomics community now regards the level of impact of “human factors” in hazardous manual handling. It appears that there is a growing link between psychosocial risk (ie stress) and risk of MSD. The assumption is that modern workplace disruption is the source and may lead to an increase in complex claims and problematic RTW.

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