Effect of lifting height and load mass on low back loading

Ergonomics

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1053-1063

  Hoozemans, Marco J M ^a   Kingma, Idsart ^a   de Vries, Wiebe ^b   van Dieën, Jaap ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ROESSINGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ergonomics; Lifting; Lifting height; Low back; Spine

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MODELS; ERGONOMICS; FOOD PROCESSING; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; LOADING; MATERIALS HANDLING; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PLANT LAYOUT; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRUCKS;

ANTERIOR-POSTERIOR (AP); COMPRESSION FORCES; CORRELATED DATA; ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC (EMG); ERGONOMIC INTERVENTIONS; LIFTING HEIGHT; LOAD MASS; LOW BACK; LOW BACK LOAD; MANUAL MATERIALS HANDLING (MMH); OPTIMISATION; REGRESSION (R2); SEGMENT MODEL (SM); SHEAR FORCE (SF); TRUNK FLEXION;

LOADS (FORCES);

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GRAVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MASS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRENGTH; WEIGHT BEARING; WORK CAPACITY; WORKLOAD; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; BACK; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LIFTING; MALE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 46249102180     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130801958642     Document Type: Article

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