Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Usability of the revised NIOSH lifting equation

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Usability of the revised NIOSH lifting equation / Patrick G. Dempsey

Following the revision of the 1981 National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) lifting equation, research needs related to the new equation were outlined. The NIOSH equation represents one technique for performing a task analysis of manual materials handling exposures involving lifting and lowering. The fact, the equation requires an implicit form of the task description for the exposure being analysed: highly repetitive lifting and lowering with parameters that do not change

En: Ergonomics. - London and Washington. - Vol. 45, nº 12, October 2002 ; p. 817-828

1. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health . 2. Ergonomía . 3. Trabajo manual . 4. Trabajo repetitivo . 5. Métodos de análisis . I. Título. II. Título: Ergonomics.