Forestry Ergonomics Publications in the Last Decade: A Review
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results
3.1. Publishing Year, Country, Journal, and Field Overview
3.2. Article Classification
3.3. Recent Study Results per Risk Factors Overview
3.3.1. Noise and Vibration
3.3.2. Workload
3.3.3. Postural Load
3.3.4. MSDs (Musculoskeletal Disorders)
- The work environment and performance of work contribute significantly to the condition;
- The condition is made worse or persists longer due to work conditions.
3.3.5. Thermal Comfort, Gases and Particulates, Repetitive Motion, Fatigue, Human Factors, and Visibility
3.3.6. Illumination, Cab, Controls, and Seat
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
- The number of articles is ever-increasing with the last four years having an above average number of articles (12). An increase is also observed cumulatively compared to a previous study [26], from 76 to 102 articles.
- Countries from Europe and South America (Brazil) have the most publications at 57 and 27, respectively.
- Most of the journals are ranked in the top 50%, while Brazil—a country with the highest number of articles—was mostly (19 out of 27) publishing in domestic journals.
- Harvesting (44%), wood extraction (27%), and pre-harvesting (13%) operations have the highest percentage of records.
- Chainsaw, skidder, and pre-harvesting tools are the most observed means of work with 24%, 11%, and 11% of records, respectively.
- The risk factors with the highest percentage of records are workload (23%), noise (20%), vibration (20%), postural load (16%), and MSD occurrence (7%).
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
Appendix B
Authors and Reference Numbers in Chronological Order (Left to Right) | |||
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Nuutinen et al., 2014 [91] | Leszczyński and Stańczykiewicz 2014 [102] | Gerasimov and Sokolov 2014 [23] | Sasaki et al., 2014 [103] |
Britto et al., 2014 [104] | Oliveira et al., 2014 [71] | Barbosa et al., 2014 [105] | Silva et al., 2014 [89] |
Leszczyński and Stańczykiewicz 2015 [106] | Spinelli et al., 2015 [79] | Almeida et al., 2015 [88] | Yovi and Prajawati 2015 [107] |
Dubé et al., 2015 [98] | Ji et al., 2015 [96] | Fonseca et al., 2015 [108] | Poje et al., 2015 [92] |
Souza et al., 2015 [109] | Minette et al., 2015 [110] | Huber and Stampfer 2015 [111] | Grzywiński 2015 [112] |
Britto et al., 2015 [66] | Poje et al., 2016 [80] | Magagnotti et al., 2016 [113] | Grzywinski et al., 2016 [56] |
Dubé et al., 2016 [114] | Ottaviani Aalmo et al., 2016 [76] | Häggström et al., 2016 [29] | Phairah et al., 2016 [60] |
Schettino et al., 2016 [59] | Marzano et al., 2017 [115] | Spinelli et al., 2017 [116] | Ji et al., 2017 [97] |
Schettino et al., 2017 [82] | Brokmeier 2017 [94] | Poje et al., 2018 [93] | Spinelli et al., 2018 [117] |
Granzow et al., 2018 [118] | Cheţa et al., 2018 [119] | Tomczak et al., 2018 [18] | Neri et al., 2018 [120] |
Poje et al., 2018 [121] | Billo et al., 2019 [31] | Yovi and Yamada 2019 [19] | Enez and Nalbantoğlu 2019 [95] |
Bowen et al., 2019 [64] | Borz et al., 2019 [32] | Poje et al., 2019 [34] | Lopes et al., 2019 [52] |
Bligård and Häggström 2019 [122] | Paini et al., 2019 [53] | Grzywinski et al., 2019 [90] | Oliveira et al., 2020 [24] |
Santos et al., 2020 [63] | Stenlund et al., 2020 [54] | Spinelli et al., 2020 [46] | Martins et al., 2020 [8] |
Szewczyk et al., 2020 [47] | Arab et al., 2020 [72] | Dimou et al., 2020 [81] | Iftime et al., 2020 [62] |
Berendt et al., 2020 [123] | Naskrent et al., 2020 [3] | Landekić et al., 2020 [37] | Paini et al., 2020 [124] |
Martins et al., 2020 [125] | McLain et al., 2021 [87] | Oliveira-Nascimento et al., 2021 [42] | Schönauer et al., 2021 [44] |
Veiga et al., 2021 [33] | Arman et al., 2021 [43] | Zurita Vintimilla et al., 2021 [126] | Szewczyk et al., 2021 [127] |
Camargo et al., 2021 [4] | Yovi et al., 2021 [128] | Çağlar 2021 [129] | Borz et al., 2021 [15] |
Huber et al., 2021 [35] | Iftime et al., 2022 [61] | Pajek et al., 2022 [49] | Camargo et al., 2022 [5] |
Arman et al., 2022 [48] | Lee et al., 2022 [45] | Staněk and Mergl 2022 [130] | Gejdoš et al., 2022 [131] |
Camargo et al., 2022 [6] | Hnilica et al., 2022 [132] | Camargo et al., 2022 [7] | Papandrea et al., 2022 [38] |
Borz et al., 2022 [16] | Landekić et al., 2023 [17] | Landekić et al., 2023 [57] | Staněk et al., 2023 [9] |
Bačić et al., 2023 [10] | Feyzi et al., 2023 [11] | Ottaviani Aalmo et al., 2023 [12] | Neri et al., 2023 [36] |
Bačić et al., 2023 [133] | Okuda et al., 2023 [13] | Sláma et al., 2023 [14] | Lima et al., 2023 [134] |
Staněk et al., 2023 [58] | Nakata et al., 2023 [65] |
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Operation | Machine/Tool | Risk Factor |
---|---|---|
Pre-harvesting | Pre-harvesting tools | Vibration |
Harvesting | Manual work/tools | Noise |
Wood extraction | Chainsaw | Workload 1 |
Wood transport | Harvester | Postural load |
Biomass production | Feller buncher | MSD |
Measuring/managing | Processor | Thermal comfort |
Controlled tests | Farm tractor | Fatigue |
Crawler tractor | Human factors | |
Slash grapple | Gases and particulates | |
Skidder | Repetitive motion | |
Forwarder | Illumination | |
Tower yarder | Visibility | |
Loader | Cab | |
Animal | Controls | |
Timber truck | Seat | |
Chipper | ||
Debarker | ||
Fire wood processor |
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Bačić, M.; Landekić, M.; Pandur, Z.; Šušnjar, M.; Šporčić, M.; Nevečerel, H.; Lepoglavec, K. Forestry Ergonomics Publications in the Last Decade: A Review. Forests 2024, 15, 616. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15040616
Bačić M, Landekić M, Pandur Z, Šušnjar M, Šporčić M, Nevečerel H, Lepoglavec K. Forestry Ergonomics Publications in the Last Decade: A Review. Forests. 2024; 15(4):616. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15040616
Chicago/Turabian StyleBačić, Marin, Matija Landekić, Zdravko Pandur, Marijan Šušnjar, Mario Šporčić, Hrvoje Nevečerel, and Kruno Lepoglavec. 2024. "Forestry Ergonomics Publications in the Last Decade: A Review" Forests 15, no. 4: 616. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15040616