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      Ergonomía participativa: empoderamiento de los trabajadores para la prevención de trastornos musculoesqueléticos Translated title: Participatory Ergonomics: A Model for the Prevention of Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders

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          La ergonomía participativa es una estrategia de intervención sobre los riesgos por carga física en los lugares de trabajo escasamente conocida en España, aunque en otros países se cuenta con numerosas experiencias y evidencias en este campo. Son varias las razones que justifican su interés. En primer lugar, aborda una de las categorías de riesgos laborales que mayor impacto tiene sobre la salud de los trabajadores en la mayoría de países, tanto en términos de incidencia, como de prevalencia o incapacidad. En segundo lugar, el principio básico de la ergonomía participativa es la capacitación de los trabajadores para que participen tanto en la identificación de los riesgos y daños a la salud derivados de las exposiciones a carga física en el trabajo como en la propuesta y evaluación de las medidas de corrección adecuadas a cada situación. En tercer lugar, permite el tratamiento y la solución de muchos problemas sin necesidad de complicados protocolos técnicos. Desde el punto de vista de la salud pública, la ergonomía participativa es un modelo muy ensayado de empoderamiento (empowerment) de la población para controlar los determinantes del entorno (laboral) que afectan a su salud y bienestar. En este trabajo se revisan algunos de los principios básicos de los programas de ergonomía participativa, se comentan las claves relacionadas con el éxito o fracaso de los programas y se presentan algunos resultados principales de las experiencias de ergonomía participativa que se vienen desarrollando desde hace años en países como Canadá, Reino Unido, Holanda o Finlandia.

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          Participatory ergonomics is an intervention strategy acting on physical load exposures occurring in occupational settings, scarcely known in Spain but with a number of experiences and evidences coming from other countries. There are several reasons justifying the interest of this approach. First, participatory ergonomics focuses on one of the categories of occupational exposures with the largest impact on workers' health in a majority of countries all over the world, in terms of incidence, prevalence and disability. Secondly, basic principle in participatory ergonomics is empowerment of workers for them to participate identifying risks and injuries caused by physical exposures at work as well as proposing and evaluating proper control measures for each situation. Thirdly, it allows dealing and solving a number of problems without the use of complex technical protocols. From a public health perspective, participatory ergonomics is a largely tried model of community empowerment for the control of (occupational) factors affecting health and wellbeing. In this paper we revise some basic principles of participatory ergonomics, we comment on the keys leading to success or failing of the interventions and we present some main results coming from participatory ergonomics experiences developed for a long time in countries such as Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands or Finland.

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          Effectiveness of participatory ergonomic interventions on health outcomes: a systematic review.

          The objective of this study was to conduct a systematic review of the literature on the effectiveness of participatory ergonomic (PE) interventions for improving workers' health. The search strategy targeted six electronic databases and identified 442 potential articles. Each article was examined by pairs of reviewers for relevance (assessed a participative ergonomic workplace intervention, with at least one health outcome, published in English in peer reviewed literature). Twenty-three articles met relevance criteria and were then appraised for methodological strength. Using a best evidence synthesis approach, 12 studies that were rated as 'medium' or higher provided partial to moderate evidence that PE interventions have a positive impact on: musculoskeletal symptoms, reducing injuries and workers' compensation claims, and a reduction in lost days from work or sickness absence. However, the magnitude of the effect requires more precise definition.
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              Ergonomics and musculoskeletal disorders: overview.

              Musculoskeletal disorders continue to be a major source of disability and lost work time. Understanding their causes, and especially those that are work-related, remains the key to primary prevention. This set of in-depth reviews considers the problem from a number of systems needs and viewpoints. Assessing the exposure of workers to known risk factors is essential and appropriate methods are reviewed. Similarly, a consideration of psychosocial factors thought to contribute indirectly to the problem has also been explored. Contemporary ergonomics stresses the importance of a participatory approach to prevention and solution finding, and evidence in support of this is presented. The final review considers the application of ergonomics knowledge to understanding musculoskeletal disorders amongst those using computer technology.
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                Revista Española de Salud Pública
                Rev. Esp. Salud Publica
                Ministerio de Sanidad, Consumo y Bienestar social (Madrid, Madrid, Spain )
                1135-5727
                2173-9110
                August 2009
                : 83
                : 4
                : 509-518
                Affiliations
                [02] Valencia orgnameUniversidad de Valencia orgdiv1Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Salud Pública España
                [05] Alicante orgnameUniversidad de Alicante orgdiv1Departamento de Salud Pública España
                [03] orgnameCIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública España
                [01] Valencia orgnameInstituto Sindical de Trabajo, Ambiente y Salud (ISTAS) España
                [04] Alcoy orgnameUniversidad Politécnica de Valencia orgdiv1Escuela Politécnica Superior de Alcoy
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                S1135-57272009000400003 S1135-5727(09)08300400003
                10.1590/s1135-57272009000400003
                403e4def-a7f0-4862-800c-6c7c63671b52

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International License.

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                Salud laboral,Workers,Trastornos musculoesqueléticos,Cumulative Trauma Disorders,Democracy,Ergonomía,Democracia,Occupational Health,Trabajadores,Ergonomics

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