Musculoskeletal disorders in assembly jobs in the automotive industry with special reference to age management aspects

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 38, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 561-576

  Landau, Kurt ^a   Rademacher, Holger ^a   Meschke, Herwig ^a   Winter, Gabriele ^a   Schaub, Karlheinz ^a   Grasmueck, Marc ^a   Moelbert, Ingo ^a   Sommer, Michael ^a   Schulze, Jens ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age management; Assembly work; Automotive industry; Musculoskeletal symptoms; Workload strain analysis

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLY; COBALT; COBALT COMPOUNDS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRY; JOB SATISFACTION; MICROFLUIDICS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES; WELL STIMULATION;

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; AGE MANAGEMENT; ASSEMBLY LINES; ASSEMBLY PROCESSING; ASSEMBLY WORKERS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX (BMI); CASE STUDIES; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; ELSEVIER (CO); FIELD STUDIES; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; LUMBAR SPINES; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDERS (MSD); MUSCULOSKELETAL PROBLEMS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYMPTOMS; OLDER WORKERS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; UPPER LIMB (UL); WORK CONDITIONS;

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED WORKER; AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; JOB PERFORMANCE; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SHOULDER; SYMPTOM; WORK ENVIRONMENT; WORKLOAD;

EID: 45849122086     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2008.01.006     Document Type: Article

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