Work routinization and implications for ergonomic exposure assessment

Ergonomics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 12-27

  Gold, Judith E ^a,c   Park, Jung Soon ^b   Punnett, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b Zen Buddhist Temple   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Checklist; Observation; Task based analysis; Work organization; Work sampling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; JOB ANALYSIS; PERSONNEL TESTING; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

ERGONOMIC EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; TASK BASED ANALYSIS; WORK ORGANIZATION; WORK ROUTINIZATION; WORK SAMPLING;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ERGONOMICS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; JOB ANALYSIS; JOB PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PHYSICAL STRESS; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF EVALUATION; SELF REPORT; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORK SCHEDULE;

ARM; AUTOMOBILES; COHORT STUDIES; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MICHIGAN; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; POSTURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WORK;

EID: 30844431932     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130500356643     Document Type: Article

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