Effects of workers' Body Mass Index and task conditions on exertion psychophysics during Vertical Handling Tasks.
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DOI: 10.3233/wor-192923
Abstract: 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… read more here.
Keywords: psychophysics; task conditions; workers body; vertical handling ... See more keywords