An investigation of team lifting using psychophysical methods

Lifting is one of the major causes of back injury in the workplace. Often, workers are told to ask for the help of another worker when the load is too great to be lifted alone, yet the effects of these team lifts have not been researched until recently. This experiment investigated some of the varia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Suzanne E.
Other Authors: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42550
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05092009-040526/