Chronic, Recurrent Low Back PainA Methodology for Analyzing Fitness for Duty and Managing Risk under the Americans with Disabilities Act
作者:
Richard Johns,
Donald Bloswick,
James Elegante,
Alan Colledge,
期刊:
Journal of Occupational Medicine
(OVID Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 36,
issue 5
页码: 537-547
ISSN:0096-1736
年代: 1994
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Chronic, recurrent low back pain, although one of the most commonly encountered medical conditions in the workplace, is one of the most difficult to manage. With the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the proper management of the worker with recurrent low back pain poses an even greater challenge. We propose an interdisciplinary methodology to evaluate the worker at high medical risk of recurrent low back pain and determine the potential ergonomic risks of essential function tasks in material-handling work. The proposal considers the ethical and legal liabilities of risk assessment and fitness for duty evaluation that physicians, ergonomists, attorneys, and ultimately business managers and supervisors experience in balancing the societal interests represented by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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