Solutions
Line-by-line assessment, with controls that move up the hierarchy.
- Sector
- Manufacturing
- Primary risk
- Repetitive line load
- Standards
- Safe Work Australia · OSHA · ISO 11228-1
The MSD challenge in manufacturing
The risk where this work actually happens.
Repetitive tasks, fixed lines and high throughput concentrate musculoskeletal load. The question is rarely whether there's risk — it's which task, and what control will actually reduce it.
How JointAction supports manufacturing
Evidence in, prevention out.
Assess every line task objectively and consistently.
Surface the dominant factor so controls start with elimination and engineering — not behaviour change.
Validate each control with a directly comparable pre/post score.
Track trends across lines and shifts over time.
In practice
Visy Glass marked a full year to July 2023 with zero injuries requiring time away from work.
After implementing controls informed by Etiscope assessments, a manufacturing site with fixed lines and high throughput went a full year without an injury requiring time away from work. The pattern is the one this page describes: assess every line task, find the dominant factor, put the control high in the hierarchy, then re-assess to prove it moved the score.