Applied forces and sEMG activity contribution to risk assessment for assistance workers helping passengers with restricted mobility
As air travel grows the numbers of passengers with varying degrees of motor disability have grown too. The aim of this study is to analyze the task of pushing Passengers with Restricted Mobility (PRM) on three different wheelchairs (WhCh) currently supplied to PRM service of a Rome airport. The WhChs differed in their width, weight and wheels dimension. We investigated initial and sustained forces, according to the Annex D of ISO 11228-2 standard, by means of a digital dynamometer.