Variable Lifting Index (VLI)

Human Factors

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 695-711

  Waters, Thomas ^a   Occhipinti, Enrico ^b   Colombini, Daniela ^b   Alvarez Casado, Enrique ^c   Fox, Robert ^d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Centro de Ergonomia Aplicada (Cenea)   (Spain)

^d GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

biomechanics; job analysis; manual materials handling; physical ergonomics; risk assessment

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; ERGONOMICS; JOB ANALYSIS; MATERIALS HANDLING; RISK ASSESSMENT;

FREQUENCY INDEPENDENT; MANUAL LIFTING; MANUAL MATERIALS HANDLING; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTHS; PHYSICAL DEMAND; PHYSICAL ERGONOMICS; SCIENTIFIC BASIS; TASK CHARACTERISTICS;

OCCUPATIONAL RISKS;

BIOMECHANICS; CALCULATION; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB ANALYSIS; MATERIALS HANDLING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PHYSICIAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORKER; BIOENGINEERING; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; UNITED STATES;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LIFTING; NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH (U.S.); OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84978953902     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720815612256     Document Type: Article

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