Predicting the hazards of whole-body vibration - Considerations of a standard

Industrial Health

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 83-91

  Griffin, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease; Hand transmitted vibration; Injury; Standards; Whole body vibration

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; HAND; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; REVIEW; STANDARD; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION;

EID: 0031977733     PISSN: 00198366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2486/indhealth.36.83     Document Type: Review

References (10)

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2. British Standards Institution (1987) Measurement and evaluation of human exposure to whole-body mechanical vibration. British Standard, BS 6841.
3. Griffin MJ (1998) A comparison of standardised methods for predicting the hazards of whole-body vibration and repeated shocks. Accepted for publication in Journal of Sound and Vibration.
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