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Manual Handling

Manual Handling is a method within the field of material handling that involves the physical transportation of materials by human effort without the use of mechanical aids, distinguished by its reliance on human biomechanics and associated ergonomic risks.

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The design of manual handling tasks: revised tables of maximum acceptable weights and forces

Stover H. Snook, Vincent M. Ciriello · Ergonomics · 1991 · 840 citations

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The Ergonomics Society The Society's Lecture 1978. THE DESIGN OF MANUAL HANDLING TASKS

Stover H. Snook · Ergonomics · 1978 · 634 citations

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Manual handling activities and risk of low back pain in nurses.

Julia Smedley, P. Egger, Cyrus Cooper et al. · Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 1995 · 453 citations · Full text

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Assessment of an active industrial exoskeleton to aid dynamic lifting and lowering manual handling tasks

Kirsten Huysamen, M.P. de Looze, T. Bosch et al. · Applied Ergonomics · 2017 · 304 citations · Full text

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A Study of Three Preventive Approaches to Low Back Injury

Stover H. Snook, Ralph A. Campanelli, Joseph W. Hart · Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine · 1978 · 301 citations

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    Maury A. Nussbaum

    Virginia Tech, United States

    10 publications · 380 citations

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  2. SH
    Sue Hignett

    Loughborough University, United Kingdom

    9 publications · 181 citations

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  3. SH
    Stover H. Snook

    Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, United States

    8 publications · 2.2K citations

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  4. OM
    Olga Menoni

    Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Italy

    6 publications · 164 citations

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  5. CG
    Colin G. Drury

    University at Buffalo, State University of New York, United States

    6 publications · 340 citations

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Institutions

633

  1. Loughborough University

    Loughborough, United Kingdom

    12 h-index

    25 publications

    928 citations

  2. University of Cincinnati

    Cincinnati, United States

    12 h-index

    26 publications

    769 citations

  3. Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety

    Hopkinton, United States

    11 h-index

    29 publications

    1.2K citations

  4. Virginia Tech

    Blacksburg, United States

    10 h-index

    22 publications

    818 citations

  5. Karolinska Institutet

    Stockholm, Sweden

    9 h-index

    14 publications

    528 citations

  6. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

    Washington D.C., United States

    9 h-index

    14 publications

    966 citations

  7. Université du Québec à Montréal

    Montreal, Canada

    8 h-index

    10 publications

    569 citations

  8. University at Buffalo, State University of New York

    Buffalo, United States

    8 h-index

    25 publications

    1K citations

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  1. Ergonomics

    61 publications · 4K citations

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  2. Applied Ergonomics

    27 publications · 1.5K citations

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  3. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

    25 publications · 1.1K citations

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  4. Work

    22 publications · 483 citations

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