NIOSH Testimony on Manual Lifting by R. A. Lemen, June 30, 1987.

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Description:
  This testimony contains comments that NIOSH requests be attached as supplemental information to the request of OSHA for safety standards in manual lifting tasks. The topics considered in this supplemental information include the usefulness of employee screening programs, the purpose of strength testing, the importance of worker training in manual handling techniques, possible engineering controls for use in manual handling tasks, the usefulness of properly placed handles, the avoidance of asymmetric lifting, the maximum weight and load moment, psychophysics, criteria to be used in establishing a lifting standard, and several observations from users with regard to the efficacy of the NIOSH Work Practices Guide for Manual Lifting. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Content Notes:
  in NTRL, no PDF
• Subjects:
  Ergonomics Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Author; NIOSH-Testimony; Lemen-R-A; Worker-health; Occupational-safety-programs; Ergonomics; Control-technology; Manual-materials-handling; Manual-lifting; Musculoskeletal-system-disorders;
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Testimony
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00196238
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB91152579
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1987 Jun:8 pages
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1987
• NORA Priority Area:
  Research Tools and Approaches: Control Technology and Personal Protective Equipment
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  NIOSH, 8 pages, 7 references
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/242974/cdc_242974_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 168.02 KB ]