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3 Ergonomics certification
The human body is designed for movement and activity but physical stress injuries as a result of static and repetitive
movements or unfavorable working postures may occur.
The ergonomic features of our product, the ones which may influence your physical and cognitive interaction with it,
have been assessed and certified.
A product which exhibits ergonomic features, in fact, shall fulfil specific ergonomic requirements, belonging to three
different areas: Polytechnic, Biomedical and Psychosocial (usability and satisfaction).
For each of these areas, specific tests with real users have been performed. The product was therefore compliant
with the ergonomic acceptability criteria requested by the standards applied.
The product that you use is specifically studied and tested in order to minimise any physical problems associated to
the interactions with the product.
The loading and unloading of the linen and the interaction with the product may bring to incongruous postures and to
the handling of heavy weighs, inherent characteristics of the activity you do we tried to alleviate.
We would like to point out some operating procedures we suggest to adopt:
- Handle the linen in a balanced way, trying not to arch your back during the loading/unloading.
- Take in/out the laundry in small quantities. For example in 20 to 25 times for a WHB5 500, which induces a load of
approximately 3 kg with each manipulation.
- In order to avoid the entanglement of laundry including large dishes, add more rotation time in each direction.
- In case of linen entanglement, we advise you to add 30-45s of drain at the end of the program.
- We advise you to use a gripper to catch the laundry at the bottom of the drum. (as picture below)
- If possible, flex your legs and don’t bend forward your back during the placement of the linen in the lower box and
during the achievement of any lower maintenance actions or items.
- If possible, push the tray cart and pull it in order to reduce the distances.
- Keep the viewing distance in order to understand properly the information displayed in the interface or to view you
interest in the drum, reducing as much as possible the time spent with the eyes up (neck extensions).
In case several machines are managed by the same operator the repetitive movements will increase and as a conse-
quence of this the related biomechanical risk will increase exponentially.
Follow the below recommendations to avoid, as much as possible, operators acquiring bodily injury.
• Make sure there are suitable trolleys or baskets for loading, unloading and transportation.
• We advise you to use a mobile bottom trolley with a maximum height of 850mm.
• Organize job rotation in the working place in the case several machines are managed by the same operator.
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