Reliable exposure assessment strategies for physical ergonomics stressors in construction and other non-routinized work

Ergonomics

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1200-1219

  Paquet, Victor ^a,b   Punnett, Laura ^b   Woskie, Susan ^b   Buchholz, Bryan ^b  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Construction work; Exposure assessment; Physical ergonomics stressors; Posture; Work sampling

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BOOTSTRAP; CONSTRUCTION WORK; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL ERGONOMICS STRESSORS; POSTURE; WORK SAMPLING;

ERGONOMICS;

IRON;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BUILDING INDUSTRY; CALCULATION; CARPENTER; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MANUAL LABOR; MATERIALS HANDLING; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RECORDING; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BOSTON; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; NEW ENGLAND; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 27744468089     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130500197302     Document Type: Article

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