Predicting the productivity of motor-manual workers in precommercial thinning operations

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 215-220

  LeBel, Luc G ^a   Dubeau, Denise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b Direction de la Recherche Forestiere   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brushsaw; Productivity modeling; Thinning; Time consumption; Workers' performance

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTORS; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTIVITY; ROCKS;

PRODUCTIVITY MODELING; TIME CONSUMPTION; WORKERS' PERFORMANCE;

FORESTRY;

COMPENSATION; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; MODEL; THINNING;

COST EFFECTIVENESS; FORESTRY; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTIVITY; THINNING;

EID: 35348977138     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc83215-2     Document Type: Article

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