Ergonomic safety evaluation with labor time standard

• Main Authors: VARMA, CHANDLER K, BOUSE, DENNIS R, POLETTI, STEVEN J
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 12.03.2014
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

An integrated safety-evaluation with labor-time-standard system (100) is provided that includes a work-task manager (102), integrated module (104) and ergonomic safety evaluator (300). The work-task manager (102) may be configured to receive a work instruction and determine work elements applicable to the work instruction, with the work elements may have respective associated elemental unit times, elemental risk ratings and frequency values. The integrated module (104) may be configured to receive the elemental unit times, elemental risk ratings and frequency values for the work elements, and calculate a labor time standard and ergonomic safety rating therefrom. And the ergonomic safety evaluator (300) may be configured to receive the labor time standard and ergonomic safety rating and perform an ergonomic safety evaluation therefrom. In this regard, the ergonomic safety evaluator (300) may be configured to perform the ergonomic safety evaluation to determine whether to release or reject the work instruction.