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name: ergonomic-assessment
description: Use when asked to administer, score, or explain an Ergonomic Assessment — workplace musculoskeletal risk using REBA (Rapid Entire Body Assessment) — grounded in FormExamples/form-examples.
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# Ergonomic Assessment

Workplace ergonomic evaluation using the REBA (Rapid Entire Body
Assessment) for musculoskeletal risk.

## Scoring

**Instrument:** REBA. Range 1–15.

- **1** — negligible risk, no action required.
- **2–3** — low risk, change may be needed.
- **4–7** — medium risk, further investigation and change soon.
- **8–10** — high risk, investigate and implement change.
- **11–15** — very high risk, implement change immediately.

## What it covers

Demographics; workstation setup; posture assessment; repetitive tasks;
manual handling; current symptoms; medical history; current
interventions; psychosocial factors; and recommendations with an
action plan.

## Common pitfalls

- **Scoring a single static posture rather than the actual task
  sequence** — REBA is meant to capture the postures actually used
  during real work, including awkward transient postures, not just a
  "typical" resting position.
- **Ignoring psychosocial factors because the tool is body-mechanics
  focused** — workload pace, job control, and stress materially affect
  musculoskeletal risk and reported symptoms even at an identical REBA
  score.
- **Treating a low REBA score as ruling out risk from repetitive
  tasks** — REBA captures posture and load at a point in time; high-
  frequency, low-force repetitive tasks can still cause injury even at
  a favorable single-posture score.

## Learn more

- [FormExamples: ergonomic-assessment](https://github.com/FormExamples/form-examples/tree/main/forms/ergonomic-assessment) for the full implementation, clinical references, and worked examples.
- [[workplace-safety-assessment]] for the broader workplace-hazard assessment.