Effects of workers' Body Mass Index and task conditions on exertion psychophysics during Vertical Handling Tasks.

BACKGROUND: Obesity prevalence in the workforce is clearly increasing. Simultaneously, manual lifting/lowering loads, referred to as Vertical Handling Tasks (VHT) in this paper, are common in industries and services. Performing VHT exposes workers to physical overload, which can be measured using a...

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Publicado en:Work Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 231 - 242
Autores principales: Colim, Ana, Arezes, Pedro, Flores, Paulo, Braga, Ana Cristina
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. 2019
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