Work routinization and implications for ergonomic exposure assessment

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A scheme is presented for classifying levels of routinization to inform development of an appropriate exposure assessment strategy for a given occupational setting. The findings recommend a work sampling approach to job analysis as the most efficient way to obtain a comparable unbiased exposure estimate across all routinization levels.

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Responding to a fire emergency in a virtual environment: different patterns of action for different situations

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An experimental study of participants' response to the sudden appearance of a fire emergency in a virtual environment (VE) and of the adaptivity of their response pattern is presented. A VE has been built in which participants meet two situations regarding the unexpected outbreak of fire.

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Previous history of LBP with work loss is related to lingering deficits in biomechanical, physiological, personal, psychosocial and motor control

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Numerous psychosocial, personal, and biomechanical variables were studied for there association with a history of low back troubles sufficient to miss work. A cross-sectional retrospective study was also made for the workers who perform physically demanding jobs.

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