Maximum Weights and Work Loads Acceptable to Male Industrial Workers: A Study of Lifting, Lowering, Pushing, Pulling, Carrying, and Walking Tasks

American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1970, Pages 579-586

  Snook, S H ^a   Irvine, C H ^a   Bass, S F ^a  

^a LIBERTY MUTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SAFETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; EXERCISE; FITNESS; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EXERTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0014841472     PISSN: 00028894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0002889708506296     Document Type: Article

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