Determining fatigue allowances for grocery order selectors

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 15-24

  Lund, John ^a   Mericle, Kenneth S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ERGONOMICS; FATIGUE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART RATE; HUMAN; JOB ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STANDING; WORK; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0033962187     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-6870(99)00031-9     Document Type: Article

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