Control and perception of balance at elevated and sloped surfaces

Human Factors

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 136-147

  Simeonov, Peter I ^a,b   Hsiao, Hongwei ^a   Dotson, Brian W ^a,c   Ammons, Douglas E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b Natl Inst for Occupational Health ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; PRESSURE EFFECTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STABILITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SLOPED SURFACES;

ROOFS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; STANDING; VESTIBULAR FUNCTION; VISUAL ACUITY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKER;

EID: 0038152977     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/hfes.45.1.136.27232     Document Type: Article

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