Guidelines for designing jobs featuring repetitive tasks

Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1364-1383

  Bergamasco, R ^a   Girola, C ^a   Colombini, D ^b  

^a EMBRACO   (Brazil)

^b EPM   (Italy)

Author keywords

Designing jobs; Organizational measures; Repetitive tasks; Structural measures; WMSDs

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERGONOMICS; HEALTH CARE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS;

OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES;

ARM; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; ENGINEERING; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; REPETITIVE MOVEMENT; TRAINING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032169666     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401398186379     Document Type: Article

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