Items Tagged with 'Whole-body vibration'

Loading docks are busy places – and hazards are everywhere. Dock personnel exposed to crushing threats and repetitive, manual tasks are at serious risk for chronic, life-altering injuries.

For millions of workers, the effects of sustained on-the-job exposure to vibration – whether hand-arm or whole-body – may lead to various health problems.

Iowa City, IA — A NIOSH-funded study of farm machinery found that the machine operators experienced whole-body vibration at levels that reached the European Union’s “action level” for exposure limit within two hours of operation on nearly 30 percent of the equipment tested.

Whole-body vibration occurs when mechanical energy oscillations are transferred to the body as a whole, commonly through a seat or platform.