Physical discomfort among visual display terminal users in a semiconductor manufacturing company: a study of prevalence and relation to psychosocial and physical/ergonomic factors.
The associations among several alleged psychosocial and physical/ergonomics risk factors and the visual and musculoskeletal discomforts were assessed in a cross-sectional study of 119 video display terminal (VDT) users in a semiconductor manufacturing company. Cases of discomfort were identified usi...
| Publicado en: | AIHA Journal Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 276 - 283 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2003 Mar-Apr
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