摘要(英) |
It
is often necessary for the construction workers to work by
keeping unnatural postures. Their unhealthy working postures
will cause their some postures have such bad results as higher
pressure and fatigued. Because the formwork is a common type of
building constructions and the formworker’s work efficiency and
safety are often influenced by such factors as repetitive
motion, bad work environment and short rest time, this research
needs to assess the posture of formworkers and then provides
related improvements and suggestions. Therefore, the purpose of
this research is to study the time and frequency for the
formwork being at various risk exposure levels.
With the films shot on site, this research takes use of
freeze-frame pictures and observations on repetitive postures
and further adopts such four posture assessment tools as Ovako
Working Posture Analyzing System (OWAS), Repaid Entire Body
Assessment (REBA), Posture, Activity, Tools and Handling (PATH)
to study the postural injury in the formwork operation. This
research also compares the above four tools to assess the
applicability. The test shows that we can use REBA tool, which
is more rapid and time-saving, to assess the formworker’s
postures in short time. In addition, this research uses REBA
analysis to decide the assessment of postural injuries in
various operations. If the analyzed level of injuries is ranked
according to their risk levels, we can find that the risk
exposure levels for unhealthy postures in formworks and beam
moldboard works are 88% and 76.67% respectively, which are the
highest. Through the observation, we estimate the exposure time
for eight-hour work hours a day is 7.2 hours for the moldboard
and 6.38 hours for the beam work, which can be provided to the
workers as a reference for their construction procedure, to
prevent the workers from long-term exposures to hazardous
working postures and having muscular pains. Therefore, during
the construction of formworks and beam moldboards, we shall
improve the working posture of formworkers or increase the
number of workers in hopes of reducing the postural injury risk
and increasing the whole construction safety and protection. |