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Vol. 37 No. 1 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.4081/gimle.676

[Application criteria of the OCRA method in the evaluation of the structural assembly of aircraft: preliminary data]

Criteri applicativi del metodo OCRA nella valutazione dell’assemblaggio strutturale degli aeromobili: dati preliminari

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Alberto Battaglia
Servizio Sanitario, Alenia Aermacchi Spa, Italy.
Elisa Lanza
Servizio di Igiene industriale, Data Consult Srl, Varese, Italy.
Andrea Battaglia
Scuola di Specializzazione in Medicina del Lavoro, Università degli Studi di Pavia, IRCCS Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.
Francesca Collino
Scuola di Specializzazione in Medicina del Lavoro, Università degli Studi di Pavia, IRCCS Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.
Edda Maria Capodaglio
edda.capodaglio@icsmaugeri.it
Fisiatria Occupazionale ed Ergonomia, IRCCS Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia, Italy.
Marcello Montagni
Dipartimento di Sanità Pubblica, Medicina Sperimentale e Forense, Unità di Medicina del Lavoro “Salvatore Maugeri”, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy.

In the aircraft productive sector, the risk assessment of repetitive occupational activities through the OCRA method presents some major obstacles: high number of different tasks (more than 20) carried out during the work shift; definite identification of the number of technical actions per cycle.
Risk assessment through the traditional OCRA method provides in this sector a index which varies according to the sampling of the occupational tasks, rather than reflecting the effective risk level. The study raises an OCRA-based method which is applicable in the aircraft production sector and defines the overall ergonomic load for homogeneous groups of exposed workers, based on production data specified for each aircraft model.

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[Application criteria of the OCRA method in the evaluation of the structural assembly of aircraft: preliminary data]: Criteri applicativi del metodo OCRA nella valutazione dell’assemblaggio strutturale degli aeromobili: dati preliminari. G Ital Med Lav Ergon [Internet]. 2025 Apr. 8 [cited 2026 Apr. 19];37(1):32-8. Available from: https://medicine.pagepress.net/gimle/article/view/676
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