Computer-Aided Occupational Risk Assessment of Physical Workload in the Logistics 4.0

Abstract

Background: The fourth industrial revolution entails many changes, e.g. in logistics, needed employees’ skills. Current society is also changing, because of increasing life expectancy, globalization. The non-simultaneous modernization, caused by different economic situation in every country, needs agile and adequate solutions to protect health and safety of employees. Objectives: To overview the methods of assessing physical workload with emphasis on the suitability for intralogistics tasks in the context of Industry 4.0, Logistics 4.0 and following demographical changes. Methods: A critical review of the literature currently available on this topic. Results: There are many methods adjusted to assess physical workload of intralogistics workers besides of the one dedicated them. Only a few of them are implemented in computer applications based on DHM. Several allow modeling different populations.