An index for back pain risk assessment in nursery activities

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 281-290

  Taloni, Silvia ^a   Cassavia, Giovanni Carlo ^a   Ciavarro, Giuseppe Luca ^a   Andreoni, Giuseppe ^a   Santambrogio, Giorgio Cesare ^a   Pedotti, Antonio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Back pain; NIOSH equation; Nursery; Risk index; Video analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449098881     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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