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Computer-Aided Occupational Risk Assessment of Physical Workload in the Logistics 4.0

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Background: The fourth industrial revolution entails many changes, e.g. in logistics, needed employees’ skills. Current society is also changing, because of increasing life expectancy, globalization. The non-simultaneous modernization, caused by different economic situation in every country, needs agile and adequate solutions to protect health and safety of employees. Objectives: To overview the methods of assessing physical workload with emphasis on the suitability for intralogistics tasks in the context of Industry 4.0, Logistics 4.0 and following demographical changes. Methods: A critical review of the literature currently available on this topic. Results: There are many methods adjusted to assess physical workload of intralogistics workers besides of the one dedicated them. Only a few of them are implemented in computer applications based on DHM. Several allow modeling different populations.

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Maczewska, A., Polak-Sopinska, A., Wisniewski, Z. (2020). Computer-Aided Occupational Risk Assessment of Physical Workload in the Logistics 4.0. In: Kantola, J., Nazir, S. (eds) Advances in Human Factors, Business Management and Leadership. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 961. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20154-8_35

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