Skip to main content
European Commission logo
English English
CORDIS - EU research results
CORDIS
CORDIS Web 30th anniversary CORDIS Web 30th anniversary
Content archived on 2022-11-21

Ergonomic study of the cleaning of rail cars with a view to reducing the risk of accidents

Objective

Aims of project:

Improving the working conditions of workers engaged in the manual cleaning of cars with a view to bringing about a large reduction in the number of accidents during this work and an improvement in the quality of the products delivered.

The following procedure will be adopted for this project:

Analysis of the overall situation: workers, equipment, place, environment.
Description of tasks: workers, tools, operating procedure.
Constraints: deadlines, quality.
Arduousness, safety.
Proposed ways of bringing about improvements affecting workers and equipment.

Aims of the research:

Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the factors producing bad working conditions for car cleaning operations (by means of interviews, video studies, etc.);
Making proposals to improve the opening and closing of doors and cleaning by means of pressurized water jets.
Action taken in the various departments.

Topic(s)

Data not available

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

Data not available

Coordinator

Charbonnages de France
EU contribution
No data
Address
Houillieres du Bassin de Lorraine
57600 Forbach
France

See on map

Total cost
No data