The effect of seat suspension on exposure to whole-body vibration of professional drivers

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 45-55

  Burdorf, Alex ^a   Swuste, Paul ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE SEATS; HEALTH HAZARDS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; TRACTORS (AGRICULTURAL); TRUCK DRIVERS; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

SEAT SUSPENSIONS; STANDARDIZED REPRESENTATIVE VEHICLE VIBRATION SPECTRA; TRANSMISSIBILITY COEFFICIENTS;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; DRIVER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAT; TECHNICAL AID; VIBRATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKING TIME;

HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TRANSPORTATION; VIBRATION;

EID: 0027551720     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/37.1.45     Document Type: Article

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