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- Bergerbrant, Sophie, 1968, et al.
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Violent Death and Wetlands: Sketal Remains from Gotland
- 2013
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In: Counterpoint: Essays in Archaeology and Heritage Studies in Honour of Professor Kristian Kristiansen. - Oxford : Archaeopress. - 9781407311265 ; , s. 199-206
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This article examines an overlooked area of research: the bog skeletons. The focus is on remains found in Alva Myr, a former wetlands area on the island of Gotland, Sweden. The results from osteological analyses of human remains are presented.
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- Dahlqvist, Camilla, et al.
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Arbetsbelastning vid städning av hotellrum
- 2017
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Reports (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Enligt Arbetsmiljöverkets rapport ”Arbetsmiljön 2013” har 40 procent av alla hotell- och kontorsstädare ont i nacke, rygg, axlar eller armar varje vecka. 60 procent av dem känner sig uttröttade i kroppen. Arbets- och miljömedicin (AMM) Syd har tagit fram åtgärdsnivåer för ett antal belastningsmått, ”AMM Syds åtgärdsnivåer för ergonomisk belastning”, och om man överstiger dessa, anser vi att risken för belastningsskada är stor. Vi har studerat hotellrumsstädares belastning och jämfört med våra åtgärdsnivåer.Vi mätte den fysiska arbetsbelastningen hos fjorton kvinnliga hotellrumsstädare under en vanlig arbetsdag, på en deltagare åt gången. De arbetade på sju olika hotell i södra Sverige. Några var anställda av städföretag och några direkt av hotellen.Vi fann att hotellrumsstädare har en väldigt hög arbetsbelastning i övre delen av kroppen, både vad gäller rörelsehastighet, arbetsställningar och muskelansträngning (se Tabell på sid 3). Samtliga deltagare hade för hög rörelsehastighet i överarm och handled och för lite vila i underarmens muskler i jämförelse med våra åtgärdsnivåer. Även vad gäller framåtböjningen av huvudet, överarmens arbetsställning och underarmens muskelbelastning fann vi för höga nivåer. Hotellrumsstädning överskrider nio av våra elva åtgärdsnivåer för ergonomisk belastning. Detta betyder att hotellrumsstädare har en väldigt hög risk att drabbas av belastningsskador.RekommendationerFör att minska risken för belastningsskador bland hotellrumsstädare måste arbetstempot sänkas, genom att minska antalet rum som ingår i en hotellrumsstädares arbetsdag.Personalen bör erbjudas regelbundna medicinska kontroller avseende ergonomiskt belastande arbete så att man tidigt sätter in åtgärder för den arbetstagare eller grupp av arbetstagare som är på väg att utveckla skada i muskler och/eller leder. Arbetsplatsen rekommenderas att ha företagshälsovård knuten till sig, som kan genomföra de medicinska kontrollerna och som kontinuerligt gör riskbedömningar av arbetet. De bör också ha som uppgift att utbilda städpersonalen i ergonomi.
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- Dahlqvist, Camilla, et al.
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The effect of two types of maximal voluntary contraction and two electrode positions in field recordings of forearm extensor muscle activity during hotel room cleaning
- 2020
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In: International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1080-3548 .- 2376-9130. ; 26:3, s. 595-602
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Purpose. This study aimed to investigate the effects of using hand grip or resisted wrist extension as the reference contraction, and two electrode positions, on field recordings of forearm extensor muscle activity. Materials and methods. Right forearm extensor muscle activity was recorded using two electrode pairs (over the most prominent part (position 2) and proximal to that (position 1)) during one working day in 13 female hotel housekeepers. Each subject performed the two maximal voluntary contractions (MVCs), and the electrical activity obtained during these (maximal voluntary electrical activity (MVE)) was used for normalization. Each set of recordings was analysed twice, once using hand grip as the MVC and once using resisted wrist extension. Results. Resisted wrist extension showed a higher group mean MVE than hand grip. Position 2 had higher correlation between MVE and force during the MVCs. The workload during cleaning was lower when using resisted wrist extension as reference than when using hand grip (24%MVE vs 46%MVE; p = 0.002 at position 2) for the 90th percentile. The workload (99th percentile) was overestimated in two subjects when using hand grip as reference. Conclusions. Problems associated with poorly activated forearm extensors can be overcome by using resisted wrist extension as reference.
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- Fredengren, Christina, et al.
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Food for Thor : The Deposition of Human and Animal Remains in a Swedish Wetland
- 2015
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In: Journal of Wetland Archaeology. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1473-2971 .- 2051-6231. ; 15:1, s. 122-148
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper publishes an assemblage of human- and animal remains from Torresta, a wetland site in Uppland, mid-Sweden, dating to the Bronze- and Early Iron Ages. The location of this material suggests that the phenomena of depositing bodies in watery places occurred much further north than has formerly been accounted for. It is argued that the understanding of such depositions may gain by a move from an anthropocentric focus to include relationships between humans, animals and landscape. In particular, the study makes an effort to explore whether the remains of human and animal bodies were parts of networks of care or neglect and how they could have worked in a more-than-human landscape. The paper suggests that these depositions could have operated as religious materiality and unfolds cross-temporal links with the landscape, as the depositions are located at a rock-art site by a fording point, which may have been of multi-species importance. In this place a variety of materialities from the past have formatted and attracted later depositional action. The paper works with a feminist posthuman, relational notion of landscape that experiments with the boundaries between nature and culture and between different times in a place where depositions and bodily movement of humans and animals interlace with geological forces such as land-rise and corresponding water-retreat. Thereby the paper experiments with an altered approach to landscape, accounting for landscape as changing sets of relations, which is more than landscape as captured in the eye of a human beholder or captured in meaning-making processes.
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