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RULA
Industrial Engineering

RULA (Rapid Upper Limb Assessment)

Rapid Upper Limb Assessment

Ergonomic screening method for assessing upper-body posture, force and repetition risk.

Examples

  1. 01A RULA assessment of a cable-tie task scores 6 because operators work with raised arms and bent wrists.
  2. 02The safety team reviews RULA scores for all hand-intensive workstations and starts with the highest risks.
  3. 03After the fixture is tilted by 30° and the parts are raised to elbow height, the RULA score drops from 6 to 3.

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