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Job Title
Load Weight lb
NOTE: The NIOSH guidelines in this Microsoft Excel Workbook are derived from a paper titled "Revised NIOSH Equation for
the Design and Evaluation of Manual Lifting Tasks" published in Ergonomics (Waters, Putz-Anderson, Garg, and Fine, 1993).
Load Weight kg
NOTE: The revised NIOSH guidelines in this Microsoft Excel Workbook are derived from a paper titled "Revised NIOSH
Equation for the Design and Evaluation of Manual Lifting Tasks" published in Ergonomics (Waters, Putz-Anderson, Garg, and
Fine, 1993).
#N/A #N/A
1.00 0.95 #N/A #N/A #N/A
Carry
1 2 1 1 1 7 44.00 14.82 24.67
2 3 2 4 9 4 32.83 11.02 19.00
3 2 3 6 5 2 19.33 6.65 15.00
4 3 2 7 9 1 20.17 6.84 13.17
Lift/Lower
1 2 1 1 1 5 8 39.33 11.60 18.33
2 3 2 3 3 33 6 23.67 7.04 12.17
3 4 3 4 5 96 4 27.33 9.69 13.00
4 1 2 5 8 1
Carry
1 44.00 14.82 24.67
2 32.83 11.02 19.00
3 19.33 6.65 15.00
4 20.17 6.84 13.17
Lift/Lower
1 39.33 11.60 18.33
2 23.67 7.04 12.17
3 27.33 9.69 13.00
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Percent Acceptable -- z scores
Entered 10.0 25.0 50.0 75.0 90.0
z-score -1.28 -0.67 0.00 0.67 1.28
Computed %Acceptable 10.0 25.0 50.0 75.0 90.0
Difference 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Change? 0 0 0 0 0
0
sd
7.41
5.32
4.00
5.13
4.17
3.04
2.85
3.61
2.28
3.04
7.41
5.32
4.00
5.13
4.17
3.04
2.85
3.61
2.28
3.04
Pick Menu Items and Some Pick Values
Landmark
Standing Table
Description Person Men - Ave Men
Shoulder Shoulder 144 P/P 144 cm
Elbow Flexed Elbow 111 C 111cm
Waist 106
Hip P/P 95 cm
Arm Straight Knuckle 76 C 79 cm
Mid-Thigh P/P 65 cm
Knee 46
S. H. Snook and V. M. Ciriello
The design of manual handling tasks: revised tables of maximum acceptable weights and forces
Ergonomics 34(9):1197-1213, 1991
1/1min Highest V High
1 min 12 s 6s
1 min 22 s 15 s
1 min 35 s 25 s
1 min NP NP
1 min NP NP
NP NP NP
1 min 12 s 6s
1 min 16 s 10 s
1 min 24 s 18 s
Table
Women - Ave Women
133 P/P 135 cm
103 C 105cm
102
P/P 89 cm
71 C 72 cm
P/P 57 cm
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