Development and validation of an easy-to-use risk assessment tool for cumulative low back loading: The Lifting Fatigue Failure Tool (LiFFT).

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Applied Ergonomics

• Publication date

  2017-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/j.apergo.2017.04.016PMID 28477843
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