Ergonomic Risk Screener

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ERGONOMIC RISK SCREENER

Screen the task.
Protect the person.

A clearer view of the demands behind everyday work.
Select the activity. Check the conditions. Know your next step.

01 / TASK PROFILE

What does the work involve?

Screen one activity or work area. Select every task type involved.

Step 1 of 3
Select one or more task types

Use for ordinary workplace tasks. Patient handling, individual medical restrictions and specialist work need competent advice beyond this screen.

No sign-up. Answers stay in this page.
Grounded in task conditionsForce, posture, repetition and recovery.
Clear about its limitsNo safe-load limit or compliance score.
You control the informationNo accounts, tracking or automatic submission.

BEHIND THE SCREEN

Better questions. Clearer decisions.

Original OHSE triage logic, informed by South African ergonomics duties and occupational-health guidance. This is not a validated assessment instrument.

METHOD & SOURCE NOTES

What this screen can tell you.

This is an original, qualitative prioritisation tool for physical ergonomic concerns. It is not MAC, ART, RAPP, RULA, REBA, a NIOSH lifting-equation calculation, a medical assessment or a legal-compliance audit.

How the outcome is decided

Any substantial concern, recurring symptom/injury report, missing or unverified current assessment, or uncertain answer leads to Formal assessment recommended. Three or more concern answers counted across a selected task and the shared recovery question also lead to that outcome. That combination rule is an OHSE precautionary design choice, not a legal or validated exposure threshold.

Otherwise, any reported concern leads to Improvement needed. Monitor is available only when all selected checks report no concerns, with current assessment coverage and representative observation confirmed. It never means the task is safe or exempt from assessment.

South African duties remain separate

Regulation 6 of the Ergonomics Regulations, 2019 requires an assessment by a competent person before relevant work, after consultation with the relevant health and safety committee or representatives, at intervals not exceeding two years and on specified review triggers. Controls follow the hierarchy of controls. A medical-surveillance need may arise from the assessment or an occupational health practitioner’s recommendation; this tool decides neither.

Scope & privacy

Use one activity/work area at a time. People handling, specialist operations and individual medical restrictions need appropriate competent advice. Cognitive and organisational ergonomics are not comprehensively assessed. Answers are held in page memory, not saved in a browser database. Reloading loses them. Explicit downloads and copies contain your answers. Email contains only task context and outcome. Hosted pages can still create ordinary server logs; adding analytics changes this privacy position.

Sources

Foreign guidance informs technical topics, not South African legal exemptions or duties. Links do not imply endorsement or validation of OHSE’s questions or rules.

Source review: 19 September 2026. Recheck legal changes and task conditions before relying on an operational assessment.

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