The Effects Of Vibration on Psychophysical Grip and Push Force-Recall Accuracy

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• Personal Author:
  Dong, Ren G. ; McDowell, Thomas W. ; Welcome, Dan ; Wilker SF
• Description:
  Workers using vibrating hand tools have the potential for developing health problems associated with repeated forceful actions and exposures to hand-transmitted vibration. Hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) and other hand-arm system disorders have been associated with such exposures. To better assess health risks, comprehensive evaluations of these exposures must include quantitative assessments of hand-tool coupling forces; unfortunately, no standardized method for quantifying hand forces exists. Handle instrumentation may be ill-suited for some field environments. Psychophysical force-recall techniques may provide alternatives to handle instrumentation. A thorough understanding of the effects of vibration and other factors on force-recall accuracy and reliability is important before such methods are applied in risk assessments.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Toxicology
• Keywords:
  Analytical-models Analytical-processes Power-tools Vibration Vibration-control Vibration-disease Vibration-effects Vibration-exposure Vibration-monitors
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  HELD - Health Effects Laboratory Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  27-28
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030961
• Citation:
  Proceedings of the first American conference on human vibration, June 5-7, 2006, Morgantown, West Virginia. Dong, Ren G., Krajnak K, Wirth O, Wu J, eds. Morgantown: WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No. 2006-140, 2006 Jun; :27-28
• Editor(s):
  Dong, Ren G. ; Krajnak K ; Wirth O ; Wu J
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2006
• NORA Priority Area:
  Disease and Injury: Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Upper Extremities
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f7154e7b5e02c0819be92a4ed52a559e5004d6452d55a37f0477df3e8c590dc2e78d3e6ee83e1f056c290f8822ee78ef823ffdab1ed5a59fd7619621b4b8434e
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/181438/cdc_181438_DS1.pdf
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