Evaluation and redesign of manual material handling in a vaccine production centre’s warehouse
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Evaluation and redesign of manual material handling in a vaccine production centre's warehouse.
This study was conducted in a warehouse at a vaccine production centre where improvement to existing storage and working conditions were sought through the construction of a new refrigerated store section (2-8C°). Warehousing tasks were videotaped and ergonomics analysis tools were used to assess the risk of developing MSDs. Specifically, these tools were the Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA)...
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عنوان ژورنال: Work
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1875-9270,1051-9815
DOI: 10.3233/wor-2012-0486-2487