An ergonomic assessment of the airline baggage handler

32maneuver the cans manually inside the bin of the aircraft. Conversely, baggage handlersthought that lifting baggage on and off conveyors was the least hazardous of the manualhandling tasks with on 69 out of 156 felt that this is hazardous.In regards to the personal injury experience question, less than half (46%) of thebaggage handlers, Seventy-two votes, experienced a back injury while handling luggage(Table 3.6). However, out of the seventy-two responses, forty (56%) claimed that theback injury reduced their ability to handle baggage, and forty-three (60%) claimed thatthe injury has recurred since the first occasion.When baggage handlers were surveyed for opinions concerning prevention andsolutions, they answered as follows (Table 3.7). With regards to the question of developin-plane baggage and cargo stacking systems, that answer gathered the highest responsewith 122 baggage handlers out of 156 (78%) responding yes. The question ofredesigning baggage-handling systems to reduce injury risk also ranked high amongst the