Open AccessTask-based estimation of mechanical job exposure in occupational groups
Author(s) -
Svend Erik Mathiassen,
Catariordander,
Susanne Wulff Svendsen,
Helen Wellman,
Patrick G. Dempsey
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.861
Subject(s) - task (project management) , job analysis , work (physics) , estimation , cumulative trauma disorder , occupational exposure , statistics , occupational medicine , psychology , applied psychology , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , social psychology , environmental health , poison control , mathematics , job satisfaction , engineering , mechanical engineering , systems engineering
This study examined the validity of a common belief in epidemiology with respect to work-related musculoskeletal disorders, that individual mechanical job exposure is better estimated from tasks performed in the job than from the mean exposure of the occupational group.