Telehealth / national (coached geometry-and-load audit of the worker's own recurring job task; results belong to the worker)
NIOSH Lifting Equation audit — Recommended Weight Limit + Lifting Index for your worst recurring lift — telehealth / national.
At work, a person measures the start and end points of one recurring lift with a tape measure, notes the load's weight, and records the numbers on a worksheet. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $220 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- ProofThe worst recurring lift measured at origin/destination + the RWL computed via the full multiplier formula + the Lifting Index recorded + an LI at or above 3.0 routed to occupational medicine + a red flag on the pre-screen also routed there + a named mechanical fix for any LI above 1.0
- Open until2026-12-28
- Levelentry
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Measure the worst recurring lift on the job and compute its NIOSH Lifting Index. Manual lifting is the single largest recognized cause of occupational low-back injury, yet the lifts that cause it are almost never measured, a worker knows a task 'feels heavy' with no number behind it, and no fix gets prioritized until an injury already happened. The Revised NIOSH Lifting Equation turns one real, recurring lift from the worker's own job into a Recommended Weight Limit and a Lifting Index that names exactly which lift is the problem and exactly what to change about it, computed from measurement, never from a max-effort lift.
Fund it for $220. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- tape measure (for horizontal, vertical, and travel distances)
- bathroom or luggage scale, or the load's known/labeled weight
- protractor or an angle-estimation app (asymmetry angle)
- tablet or clipboard with the RNLE variable worksheet and multiplier tables
- camera for the lift geometry, not for the worker's body
Steps
- 1. Administer the pre-screen before any measurement: ask about current back pain, radiating leg pain or numbness, or a back injury in the past 6 weeks. Any positive answer stops the audit here and routes to a clinician or physical therapist; do not proceed to measurement.
- 2. Identify the worker's single worst recurring lift on this job, the one done most often or that feels heaviest, never a one-time or maximal-effort lift.
- 3. Measure the lift geometry at both the origin and the destination: horizontal distance from the body to the load's center, vertical height of the hands at the start and end, and vertical travel distance between them.
- 4. Record the load's actual weight from a scale or a known label, never estimated and never a max-effort test, the lift frequency and duration class, the asymmetry angle (how far the trunk twists from straight ahead), and the coupling quality of the grip (good, fair, or poor).
- 5. Compute the Recommended Weight Limit: RWL = LC (51 lb, 23 kg) times HM times VM times DM times AM times FM times CM, using the standard RNLE multiplier tables for each measured variable.
- 6. Compute the Lifting Index: LI = actual load weight divided by RWL.
- 7. Record the result and apply the decision rules below. For any LI greater than 1.0, name one concrete change that would lower it (move the load closer, raise the origin height, reduce the twist, add a handle) and record it as the finding.
What counts as done
- Back-pain / radiating-symptom / recent-injury pre-screen completed BEFORE measurement, with any positive routed to a clinician or physical therapist and recorded
- All RNLE variables measured and recorded for the worker's own worst recurring lift: horizontal distance, vertical height, vertical travel distance, asymmetry angle, actual load weight (scale or known label, never a max-effort lift), lift frequency/duration class, and coupling quality
- RWL computed (LC × HM × VM × DM × AM × FM × CM) and the Lifting Index (LI = load ÷ RWL) recorded
- LI ≥ 3.0, or LI 1.0–3.0 on a task that cannot be redesigned immediately, or any pre-screen red flag, routed to occupational medicine, a clinician, or a physical therapist, with the referral recorded
- For any LI > 1.0, one concrete named fix recorded (raise the origin, cut the travel distance, reduce asymmetry, improve coupling/add handles, or split the load) plus a retest date
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
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