Citation

Riley MW, Arnold RC. Proc. Hum. Factors Ergon. Soc. Annu. Meet. 1978; 22(1): 12-15.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1978, Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/107118137802200103

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Maintaining a standing posture is fatiguing and additional muscle effort is required if the floor-shoe interface allows easy slippage. Requiring workers to stand on "slick" surfaces is known to be dangerous. A link-system model of the human body is used to calculate the moments at the hip joints required to maintain a standing position. The values of the moments are functions of the coefficient of friction at the floor-shoe interface.

Language: en