Designing safe job rotation schedules based upon workers' skills

International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 193-199

  Aryanezhad, M B ^a   Kheirkhah, A S ^b   Deljoo, V ^b   Mirzapour Al E Hashem, S M J ^a,c  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^b BU ALI SINA UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Job rotation; Low back pain; LP metric; Noise exposure

Indexed keywords

INTEGER PROGRAMMING; NOISE POLLUTION; ROTATION;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODELS; JOB ROTATION; LOW BACK INJURIES; LOW BACK PAIN; LP-METRIC; MULTI OBJECTIVES; NEW MODELS; NOISE EXPOSURE; NOISE EXPOSURE LEVELS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OCCUPATIONAL NOISE EXPOSURES; SEVERITY INDICES; SINGLE OBJECTIVES; TEST PROBLEMS;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

EID: 60949102584     PISSN: 02683768     EISSN: 14333015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00170-008-1446-0     Document Type: Article

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