Biomechanical, physiological and psychophysical evaluations of clean room boots

Ergonomics

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 481-496

  Lin, Chih Long ^a   Wang, Mao Jiun J ^a   Drury, Colin ^b  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Clean room boots; Physiological measures; Shock absorbing soles

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CLEAN ROOMS; ELASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHOCK ABSORBERS;

BOOT SOLE PROPERTIES; CLEAN ROOM BOOTS;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ELASTICITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SANITATION; SHOCK; SHOE; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SHOES; TAIWAN; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33847255866     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130600901579     Document Type: Article

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