Understanding the transfer of knowledge and skills from training to preventive action using ergonomic work analysis with 11 female VDT users

Work

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 171-183

  Trudel, Louis ^a,b   Montreuil, Sylvie ^b  

^a Faculty of Medicine   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ergonomics; Musculoskeletal and visual problems; Transfer of knowledge and skills; Work self analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; DATA ANALYSIS; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; JOB ANALYSIS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NORMAL HUMAN; OPERATOR; SCIENCE; SKILL; TRAINING; VISUAL DISORDER;

EID: 0032730411     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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