Exposure assessment in health assessments for hand-arm vibration syndrome
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Exposure assessment in health assessments for hand-arm vibration syndrome.
BACKGROUND Assessing past cumulative vibration exposure is part of assessing the risk of hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) in workers exposed to hand-arm vibration and invariably forms part of a medical assessment of such workers. AIMS To investigate the strength of relationships between the presence and severity of HAVS and different cumulative exposure metrics obtained from a self-reportin...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/kqr100