Does a rolling floor reduce the physical work demands and workload, and increase the productivity of truck drivers handling packed goods?

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 595-600

  Verschoof, Sandra ^a   Kuijer, P Paul F M ^a   Frings Dresen, Monique H W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ergonomic intervention; Evaluation; Workload

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PRODUCTIVITY; ROLLING; TRUCK DRIVERS; WORK-REST SCHEDULES;

NON-MOVING FLOOR; PACKED GOODS; PHYSICAL WORK; WORK LOADS;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BUILDING; DRIVER; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATERIALS HANDLING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRODUCTIVITY; WEIGHT LIFTING; WORK; WORKLOAD;

EID: 20444469955     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2005.01.017     Document Type: Article

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