Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA)
McAtamney, Lynn ; Hignett, Sue
2000
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201-205
ergonomic evaluation ; ergonomics ; hospital ; manual handling ; methodology ; posture recording ; work posture ; workload assessment
Ergonomics and work environment
English
This technical note details the preliminary stage in the development of a postural analysis tool, "Rapid Entire Body Assessment" (REBA). REBA has been developedto fill a perceived need for a practioner's field tool, specifically designed to be sensitive to the type of unpredictable working postures found in health care and other service industries. A team of ergonomists, physiotherapists and nurses collected and individually coded over 600 postural examples to produce a new tool incorporating dynamic and static postural loading factors, human-load interface, and a new concept of a gravity-assisted upper limb position. Initial reliability for inter-observer coding shows promise but further work is needed to establish the validity of the tool.
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