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Twenty-two male and twenty-three female motorcycle riders performed ninety test runs on six 20-km paved urban routes. Root mean square of acceleration, 8-hour estimated vibration dose value (VDV (8)), and 8-hour estimated daily static compression dose (S ed ) were determined in accordance with ISO 2631-1 (1997) and ISO 2631-5 (2004) standards. The analytical results indicated that over 90 % of the motorcycle riders revealed VDV (8) exceeding the upper boundary of health guidance caution zone (17 m/s1.75) recommended by ISO 2631-1 or S ed exceeding the value associated with a high probability of adverse health effects (0.8 MPa) according to ISO 2631-5. Over 50 % of the motorcycle riders exceeded exposure limits for VDV and S e within 3 h. Significantly greater exposure levels were observed in male participants than in female participants for VDV (8) (p < 0.05) and S ed (p < 0.005). The health impacts of WBV exposure in motorcycle riders should be carefully addressed with reference to ISO standards.
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The authors wish to thank the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health for financially supporting this research study (IOSH97-H317).
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Chen, HC., Pan, YT. (2013). Whole-Body Vibration Exposure in Urban Motorcycle Riders. In: Lin, YK., Tsao, YC., Lin, SW. (eds) Proceedings of the Institute of Industrial Engineers Asian Conference 2013. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4451-98-7_116
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