Guide to Manual Materials Handling

ISBN-13: 9780748407286 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 140 str.

Anil Mital; A. Mital; Mital Mital

Opis

Manual Materials Handling (MMH) creates special problems for many different workers worldwide. Labourers engaged in jobs which require extensive lifting/lowering, carrying and pushing/pulling of heavy materials have suffered increasing rates of musculo-skeletal injury, especially to the back.

Spis treści

Part 1: the world-wide scope of manual materials handling; factors to be considered in designing manual materials; design approaches to solving manual materials handling. Part 2: lifting; pushing; pulling; carrying; holding; materials handling in unusual postures; designing and evaluating multiple task manual materials handling jobs; high and very high frequency manual lifting / lowering and carrying load transfer; determination of rest allowances; mechanical aids.

O autorze

Mital, A.