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Evaluating physical fitness for hazardous waste work
1Center for Occupational Health, Exeter Hospital, New Hampshire 03833.
Occupational Medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.)
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
The lifting of heavy loads is the most physically demanding aspect of many occupations. Clean-up work at hazardous waste sites involves heavy manual labor, frequently under significant thermal stress created by personal protective equipment. Worker fitness is particularly important in hazardous waste work in view of the increased demands required on the musculoskeletal and cardiopulmonary systems.