World at work: Refuse collectors

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 282-286

  Kuijer, P P F M ^a   Frings Dresen, M H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; FATALITY; FATIGUE; FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; LACERATION; MORTALITY; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPRAIN; TENOSYNOVITIS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION; WORKER; WOUND;

ACCIDENTS, OCCUPATIONAL; FATIGUE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEARING DISORDERS; HUMANS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICES; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EID: 1542405158     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2002.001172     Document Type: Review

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