Musculoskeletal disorders: OWAS review
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2017-05-09Resumen
The prevention of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) is very important in the world. Governments and companies are the most interested. The objective of the present work is to review the literature on the applications of the OWAS method in the diverse sectors or fields of knowledge and countries from its publication to March 2017. The use of OWAS method has been classified by categories of knowledge, by country and by year. The search was made by selecting only the main collection of the Web of Science. This was selected by the option “Advanced search” using the term OWAS (ts=OWAS) for the time period of 1900 to 2017. A total of 166 results were found, consisting of conference papers and articles in scientific journals. In conclusion, the OWAS has been applied mainly in two sectors: “Manufacturing industries” and “Healthcare and Social assistance activi-ties”. This method needs to be complemented with other indirect or direct methods. Also, whenever the OWAS has been used, whether individ...
Palabra/s clave
Observation methods
OWAS
Posture evaluation
Ergonomics
Prevention