Muscular strain during floor mopping with different cleaning methods

Proceedings of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Association, 'Ergonomics for the New Millennium'

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 521-524

  Hopsu, Leila ^a   Toivonen, Risto ^a   Louhevaara, Veikko ^a   Sjøgaard, Karen ^b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR THE WORKING ENVIRONMENT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HOSPITALS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MUSCLE; PERSONNEL; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STANDARDIZATION;

CLEANERS; MUSCULAR STRAIN;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 1842737114     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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