Task based exposure assessment in ergonomic epidemiology: A study of upper arm elevation in the jobs of machinists, car mechanics, and house painters

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 18-26

  Svendsen, S W ^a   Mathiassen, S E ^b,c   Bonde, J P ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CARPENTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ERGONOMICS; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MACHINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORK CAPACITY; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM; AUTOMOBILES; BIOMECHANICS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 11344269178     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2004.015966     Document Type: Article

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