Manual materials handling implications of global changes in work

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 3-12

  Drury, C G ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Diverse workers; Global changes; Increasing workloads; Individual capability; Manual materials handling; Matching demands and capabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 55449115209     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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