Musculoskeletal Problems among VDU Workers in a Hong Kong Bank
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A participatory approach to the study of lifting demands and musculoskeletal symptoms among Hong Kong workers.
AIMS To investigate the use of a worker based methodology to assess the physical stresses of lifting tasks on effort expended, and to associate this loading with musculoskeletal outcomes (MO). METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted on 217 male manual handling workers from the Hong Kong area. The effects of four lifting variables (weight of load, horizontal distance, twisting angle, and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational Medicine
سال: 1996
ISSN: 0962-7480,1471-8405
DOI: 10.1093/occmed/46.4.275