Spatiotemporal gait parameters while cross-slope residential roof walking.

Autor: Breloff SP; National Institute for Occupation Safety & Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Effects Laboratory Division, 1095 Willowdale Rd, Morgantown, WV, 26505, USA., Carey RE; National Institute for Occupation Safety & Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Effects Laboratory Division, 1095 Willowdale Rd, Morgantown, WV, 26505, USA., Wade C; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Mississippi, MS, 38677, USA., Waddell DE; Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Mississippi, MS, 38677, USA.; Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Mississippi, MS, 38677, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: International journal of industrial ergonomics [Int J Ind Ergon] 2022 Jan; Vol. 87.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2021.103254
Abstrakt: Falls from residential roofs account for 80% of roofing industry fatalities. Furthermore, roofing work represents 44.7% of work in residual construction specialty trades and residential roofers count for 2.1% of overall workers in construction, with an anticipated growth in roofers of 14.9% by 2024. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the alterations in spatiotemporal gait parameters while traversing along a 6/12 pitched residential roof segment. Eighteen of the nineteen calculated spatiotemporal variables were statistically, significantly changed by walking across a 6/12 pitched simulated residential roof. The study clearly demonstrates that spatiotemporal gait variables increase and decrease while traversing across a residential roof. The changes in spatiotemporal parameters might suggest alterations to a person's balance system resulting in an increased risk of falling. The knowledge generated in the current study will be relevant to the residential roofing industry when it can be used in educational materials to increase awareness of how a roofer's altered gait while working on a pitched roof may increase their falling risk.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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