Assessment and design of industrial manual handling to reduce physical ergonomics hazards : – use and development of assessment tools

Despite efforts of reducing harmful physical ergonomics exposures related to manual handling, the occurrence of heavy or repetitive manual handling, and non-neutral postures is high in many occupat ...

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