Effects of foot placement on postural stability of construction workers on stilts

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 781-789

  Pan, Christopher S ^a   Chiou, Sharon ^a   Kau, Tsui Ying ^b   Bhattacharya, Amit ^c   Ammons, Doug ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fall injuries; Foot placements; Postural instability; Stilts

Indexed keywords

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FALL INJURIES; FOOT PLACEMENTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCES; POSTURAL INSTABILITIES; STILTS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

STABILITY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BUILDING MATERIAL; CONSTRUCTION WORK; FOOT; FOOT PLACEMENT; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SAFETY; SHOULDER; STANDING; STILT;

EID: 64449083773     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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