Ergonomics: effective workplace practices and programs, transcripts of presentations from the conference held January 8 and 9, 1997, Chicago Illinois.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  The purpose of the conference was to provide a forum to share practical experience and workplace programs designed to reduce and prevent work related musculoskeletal disorders. Innovative and effective ergonomic programs that have been instituted to cut the rates of musculoskeletal disorders, reduce associated absenteeism, turnover, and lost time, save workers compensation costs, and improve productivity and product quality were explored. Presenters at the conference came from the areas of manufacturing, construction, apparel and textile, health aspects of successful programs, worksite analysis, resources and where to go for help, maritime, health care, training, product design, utilities, office, warehousing, mining, employee involvement, and program evaluation.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Nitriles Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Polymers Preceptorship Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-prevention Construction-industry Health-care-personnel Marine-workers Musculoskeletal-system-disorders NIOSH-Author Physical-exercise Physical-stress Safety-measures Textiles-industry
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Illinois ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DPSE - Division of Physical Sciences and Engineering ; DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DBBS - Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-573
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00240355
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1997 Jan; :1-573
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• NORA Priority Area:
  Musculoskeletal-system-disorders
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180988/cdc_180988_DS1.pdf
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