Exponeringsmätning av arm- och ryggvinklar i läkemedelsindustrin : En uppföljande Studie efter ombyggnation

Sammanfattning: This report includes a study of a pharmaceutical company in Sweden that in 2014 carried out reconstruction of a production facility in order to improve the ergonomic conditions for the production technicians.   The aim of this report is to see if the result from process technicians' self-assessment of the ergonomic risks before and after the reconstruction can be verified by the results from the inclinometer measurements that the author conducted. The purpose of the inclinometer measurements were also to get information about if the process technician´s has any extensive exposure to hands above shoulder height or back in extreme postures.   The method used was to compare the company's internal self-assessment survey from the department before and after implementation of the reconstruction. Full-day measurements with inclinometers were executed at three different days with three process technicians per day. In total six different process technicians was involved. The inclinometers was attached to the process technician’s back and right and left upper arm.   Results from the study show that the process technicians feel that they are exposed to a lower ergonomic risk after the reconstruction. The results of the inclinometer measurements show that process technicians have low exposure for extreme postures when it comes back, but a relatively high exposure of the arms above shoulder height.   The conclusion of this report is that the results from the self-assessment study partly can be explained by the results of inclinometer measurements. It is primarily the results from back measurements that confirm that result of the assessment when consideration has been given to what has been implemented during the reconstruction. On the other hand process technicians have a relatively high exposure of hands above shoulder height when they are working within the rebuilt production area as well as when they work outside.   A deficiency in this study is that no measurements or an estimate of the force needed to execute the work has been completed.  In addition, the result from the self-assessment questionnaire that the process technicians responded to is very comprehensive.   The author believes that the company should pay attention to negative changes in the outcome of next year's survey and actively work to evaluate how the reduce extreme postures of arms both inside the production area as well as outside.