A multi-method approach to assessing deadlines and workload variation among newspaper workers

Work

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-58

  Beech Hawley, L ^a,d   Wells, R ^a,b   Cole, D C ^b,c   Ferrier, Sue ^b   Beaton, Dorcas ^b   Polanyi, Michael ^b   Hogg Johnson, Sheila ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Workplace Safety and Insurance Board   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computers; Cumulative trauma disorder; Deadlines; Diary; Exposure assessment; Information technology; Newspapers; Qualitative methods; Questionnaire; Repetitive strain injury; Time variation pattern of exposure; VDT; WMSD

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JOB PERFORMANCE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; PUBLISHING; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; WORK SCHEDULE; WORKING TIME; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; FOCUS GROUPS; HUMANS; NEWSPAPERS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES; WORKLOAD;

EID: 4544297105     PISSN: 10519815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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