Major Health Risk Factors in Iranian Hand-Woven Carpet Industry
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Major health risk factors in Iranian hand-woven carpet industry.
This paper reviews the role and importance of small-scale industries together with the issue of occupational health problems and their causes in Iranian hand-woven carpet industry as a typical informal small-scale industry in an industrially developing country. The objective of this paper is to review health risk factors and related occupational health and ergonomic problems in the carpet indus...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1080-3548,2376-9130
DOI: 10.1080/10803548.2004.11076596