How to start

Prepare the assessment

The evaluator should do a previous interview to the worker who is going to be evaluated in order to understand the job tasks and observe several times the movements and postures of the worker during the work cycles of the activity.

Related to the job task that should be evaluated, it is important to choose it with the following criteria:

• The most difficult postures and work tasks (given by the previous analysis)

• The posture performed for the longest period of time

• The posture where the highest force loads occurs.

After this previous analysis, it is possible to start the assessment of the level of MSD risk in a certain job task in the tool.