More than one in four workers reportedly suffer from back pain worldwide, leading to 264
million work days lost yearly. In the US alone, it causes $50 billion in healthcare costs every …

Low back pain affects one in three workers in the world and is among the biggest causes of
absence from work. Almost 75% of back injuries occur when lifting loads. In warehousing …

Every year 2.3 million people die worldwide due to occupational illnesses and accidents at
work. By analyzing the workers' behavior when in the presence of risks managers could …

Assessing the response of earth-retaining walls to seismic loading is key for safety.
Nonlinear dynamic analyses using the finite element method (FEM) calculate the permanent …

The amount of electronic waste generated in the world is impressive. The USA alone yearly
throw away 9.4 million tons of electronic devices: only 12.5% is recycled. One way to reduce …

Industrial safety has been deeply improved in the past years, thanks to increasingly
sophisticated technologies. Nevertheless, 2.3 million people yearly die worldwide due to …

Worldwide, four people die every minute as a consequence of illnesses and accidents at
work. This considerable number makes occupational safety an important research area …

Abstract Worldwide, just under 5,800 people go to work every day and do not return
because they die on the job. The groundbreaking Industry 4.0 paradigm includes innovative …

A multi-objective deterministic hybrid algorithm (MODHA) is introduced for efficient
simulation-based design optimization. The global exploration capability of multi-objective …

In spite of many improvements in industrial safety of the last decades, nowadays four people
per minute die in the world for occupational illnesses and accidents at work. Besides …