Whole-Body Vibration Exposure of Workers During Heavy Equipment Operation

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• Personal Author:
  Asburry WD ; Doyle TE ; Wasserman DE
• Description:
  A vibration field study was made of heavy equipment operators, an occupational group exposed to whole-body vibrations impinging on the entire body. Track type tractors, scrapers, motor graders, loaders, backhoes, compactors, skidders, and dump trucks were operated by one or two of four operators with differing degrees of experience. Vibration data were obtained from the vehicle floor, man seat interface, as well as from the operator's knee, shoulder, and head. Analysis by the vibration spectra that obtained for the different types of machines indicated, in part, that little difference could be attributed to the experience of body mass of the operator; and that the majority of higher level vibration occurred below the 4 to 8Hz human body resonance band, much of it at less than 1Hz. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Construction Industry Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Vibration
• Keywords:
  Construction-equipment Construction-industry Construction-Search Digging Excavation Excavation-equipment Industrial-hygiene NIOSH-Publication Safety-measures Seat-vibration Shaking Vibration-control

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• Series:
  NIOSH Numbered Publications
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DBBS - Division of Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-98
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00080929
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB85-129633
• Citation:
  Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, DHEW (NIOSH) Publication No. 78-153, 1978 Apr; :1-98
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1978
• 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:
  urn:sha-512:888736cfc96eed65a19595a1de57866f9666294ff17740a7af5582c90653e8cec118b11b456f13d7bccaaf99b50c39579d68eba56e97a39b3a5889dedc197227
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/209333/cdc_209333_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 4.42 MB ]