Using Peak and Cumulative Spinal Loading to Assess Jobs, Job Rotation and Engineering Controls
Peak and cumulative forces on spinal structures have been identified as significant and statistically independent risk factors for reporting low back pain (LBP). This paper describes a software based approach which utilizes these risk factors to quantitatively predict the reporting of LBP by utilizi...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail (IRSST)
2003-12-01
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| Series: | Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pistes/3326 |