Ergonomics evaluation of a government office building.
An ergonomics team from the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive medicine evaluated 465 video display terminal (VDT) workstations in a Government office building over an 18-day period. Each workstation evaluation involved an assessment of the worker, the chair, the desk, the keyboard,...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 123 - 132 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2002
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