Forward bending of the trunk during work and leisure using Exposure Variation Analysis (EVA) among male manufacturing workers in Denmark

The quantification of variation in relation to exposure is important in the analysis of occupational biomechanics (Mathiassen & Winkel, 1991) and should be considered for both work and leisure (Villumsen et al., 2014). For this purpose Exposure Variation Analysis (EVA) has been suggested as a computational framework to quantify variation at work (Mathiassen & Winkel, 1991). The purpose of this study was to develop and apply EVA on diurnal recordings of physical activity focusing on forward bending during both work and leisure.