| Autor: |
M F Tracy, Christine M. Haslegrave, E. N. Corlett |
| Rok vydání: |
1987 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting. 31:318-322 |
| ISSN: |
0163-5182 |
| Popis: |
Even in high technology industries, many tasks in repair and maintenance involve heavy manual work and are often carried out in awkward and confined spaces. In such situations workers have great difficulty in obtaining access to components and may need to adopt harmful body postures while applying high forces. These tasks are being studied in the laboratory using a CODA-3 optical scanner to record postures. The aim is to investigate the strength and reach capabilities of workers, and to develop better techniques for assessing the safety and acceptability of such tasks. One of the postures which has been studied is kneeling, for tasks which occur for instance in mining or in aircraft maintenance. Reach distance and direction of operation of controls or handtools both have a large influence on strength capability and the relationships between these and the posture adopted are discussed in the paper. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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