Implementing participatory ergonomics teams among health care workers

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 190-196

  Bohr, Paula C ^a   Evanoff, Bradley A ^a   Wolf, Laurie D ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Ergonomics Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Ergonomics teams; Health care workers; Injury prevention; Intervention; Participatory action research; Participatory ergonomics; Research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ERGONOMICS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; TEAMWORK; TRAINING;

FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0030753711     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199709)32:3<190::AID-AJIM2>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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