Use of human expertise in the evaluation of manual lifting activities

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 105-124

  Genaidy, Ash ^a   Beltran, Jose ^a   Yeung, Simon ^a   Karwowski, Waldemar ^b   Succop, Paul ^a   Huston, Ron ^a   Stambough, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Human expertise; Linguistic evaluation; Manual lifting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001549668     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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