Are elderly construction workers sufficiently fit for heavy manual labour?

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Ergonomics

• Publication date

  2015-03-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering

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  DOI 10.1080/00140139.2014.977828PMID 25384925
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