Journal of Ergonomics
Open Access

Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kerala, India

Publications

• Review Article   
  Ergonomic Assessment of Construction Rebar Workers: A Country Wise Systematic Review
  Author(s): Reshma Geordy* and Sudhakumar J
  
  Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD's) are prevalent among rebar workers, which pose challenges to productivity and health in the construction industry. Ergonomic interventions can help in reducing MSD's. However, few studies have only considered interventional and post-interventional studies. This review focuses on identifying significant ergonomic advances in different countries, adopted methods and possible future studies. A literature review was carried out in Google Scholar, Scopus and PubMed from 2000 to 2020 resulted in thirty-nine articles. A systematic review and a bibliometric analysis have been done on the selected papers. The review extracted the significant findings from the articles and classified them into country-specific. Moreover, the frequency of assessment methods shows that the USA and China conducted most assessment studies on MSD. The study sugge.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2165-7556.21.s5.004

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