The Association of Gender, Book Bag Style, and Back Pain Among University Students
The purpose of this cross-sectional study is to identify risk factors associated with book bag carriage among college students and discuss strategies for prevention.
Research
Creating a Safer Future Through Research and Innovation
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The Workplace Athlete
For decades, occupational safety and health professionals have sought to mitigate musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) through traditional ergonomic risk factor analysis and workstation design. Despite these efforts, MSDs continue to plague nearly all work environments.
Novel Noise Monitoring Prototypes to Measure the Impact of Two-way Radio Earpiece Noise
Current noise exposure measurement techniques fail to account for the noise emitted from a two-way radio earpiece and are impractical for highly variant and physically demanding work environments. Two novel prototypes were created to adapt a standard noise dosimeter for measuring noise levels when a two-way radio earpiece was used.
