Study of Maximum Acceptable Weight of Lift for Indian Male Industrial Workers
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چکیده
Most of studies on Manual Material Handling (MMH) tasks for finding lifting capacity were done on general population; these were not done for underweight, normal weight and overweight workers. MMH task involves the use of the human body to lift, lower or carry loads. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of psychophysical approach on MAWL for underweight, normal weight and overweight male workers with participants lifting weights at different Heights & lifting frequencies. Three male Indian workers with different body mass index (BMI) were participated in this study using general factorial design to find out MAWL of different lifting task combinations by performing free style lifting technique.
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