AÑO
2019
CATEGORÍA
Trabajo
OBJETIVOS
Salud y bienestar
PAL. CLAVE
user-driven design , Load Distribution, Cervical Spine Pain
PAÍS
India
CRÉDITOS
Rishabh Singh
Industrial Designer
IDC, IIT Bombay
LINK
http://www.globalgradshow.com/projects/sahayak-load-carrying-aid-for-porters/
Sahayak : Load Carrying Aid for Porters
It aims at reducing major load from head to shoulder while maintaining contact of load with head.
PURPOSE
Porters carry luggage of passengers of Indian Railways over their head. This leads long term fatigue especially cervical spine pain. Project aims at reducing major load from head to shoulder while maintaining contact of load with head using aluminium frame.
INSPIRATION
This observation is common watching people bargaining from poor and needy shopkeepers. Similarly people bargain from these porters for their physical labour. And they suffer a lot to earn daily needs travelling and carrying load. Till now only product they have is trolley which can b used only on platforms connected via ramp. Indian railways have very few such platforms. So only way is to carry load is on head. So something has to be done on ease their journey and livelihood.