Psychosocial and physical work environment factors at three workplaces dealing with materials handling

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 209-220

  Ingelgård, Anders ^a   Karlsson, Håkan ^b   Nonås, Kathe ^a   Örtengren, Roland ^b  

^a Lindholmen Science Park   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Background factors; Manual materials handling; Musculoskeletal symptoms; Physical work environment; Psychosocial factors; Questionnaire; Workload

Indexed keywords

ERGONOMICS; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PERSONNEL; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MUSCULOSKELETAL DISCOMFORT; PSYCHOSOCIAL WORK ENVIRONMENT FACTORS; SICK LEAVE; WORK LOAD INDEX; WORK RELATED INJURIES;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MANUAL LABOR; MATERIALS HANDLING; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0342468785     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-8141(94)00106-5     Document Type: Article

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