Workload of window cleaners using ladders differing in rung separation

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 275-282

  Hoozemans, Marco J M ^a   De Looze, Michiel P ^b   Kingma, Idsart ^a   Reijneveld, Karen C N ^b   De Korte, Elsbeth M ^b   Van Der Grinten, Maarten P ^b   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Knee loading; Ladder climbing; Window cleaning

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HEALTH; JOINTS (ANATOMY); LADDERS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SEPARATION;

ANKLE; EXTENSION LADDERS; RUNG SEPARATION; WINDOW CLEANERS;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; ERGONOMICS; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNEE; MALE; MECHANICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SAFETY; WEIGHT BEARING; WORK; WORKLOAD;

EID: 18044387008     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2005.01.013     Document Type: Article

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