A comparison of risk assessment of single and combination manual handling tasks: 1. maximum acceptable weight measures

Ergonomics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 128-140

  Straker, L M ^a   Stevenson, M G ^b   Twomey, L T ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Worksafe Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evaluation methodology; Manual handling; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATERIALS HANDLING; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0029912880     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139608964439     Document Type: Article

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