Obesity does not reduce maximum acceptable weights of lift

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Singh, Devender ^a   Park, Woojin ^b   Levy, Martin S ^c  

^a 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Lifting; Lifting tolerance limits; Maximum acceptable weight of lift; Obesity; Psychophysics

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; NUTRITION;

LIFTING; MAXIMUM ACCEPTABLE WEIGHT; OBESITY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; TOLERANCE LIMITS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA);

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFTING TOLERANCE LIMIT; MALE; MAXIMUM ACCEPTABLE WEIGHT OF LIFT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBESITY; PHYSICAL STRESS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 51349157513     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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