Evaluating the effects of wearing gloves and wrist support on hand-arm response while operating an in-line pneumatic screwdriver

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 473-481

  Chang, Chih Hong ^a   Wang, Mao Jiun J ^a   Lin, Shu Chiang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Glove; Hand arm response; Hand transmitted vibration; Pneumatic screwdriver; Triggering force; Wrist support

Indexed keywords

NYLON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COTTON; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; FORCE; GLOVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIBRATION; WRIST;

EID: 0032801420     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-8141(98)00053-5     Document Type: Article

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