David P. Gilkey
Colorado State University
40 Papers
173 Citations
David P. Gilkey is an academic researcher from Colorado State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Occupational safety and health & Poison control. The author has an hindex of 13, co-authored 39 publications. Previous affiliations of David P. Gilkey include Georgia Institute of Technology & University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.
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Papers
Livestock-Handling Injuries in Agriculture : An Analysis of Colorado Workers' Compensation Data
TL;DR: There is a strong and compelling need to develop cost-effective interventions to reduce the number of livestock-handling injuries in agriculture and there is a significant problem, more costly, and result in more time off work than other causes of agricultural injuries.
Psychosocial factors and low back pain among college students.
TL;DR: The stressful psychosocial variables of feeling very sad, exhausted, and overwhelmed were associated with the prevalence of low back pain among a population of college students in a major university in Colorado.
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The Association of Self-Reported Backpack Use and Backpack Weight With Low Back Pain Among College Students
TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that increasing reported backpack weight is associated with increased prevalence of annual low back pain, but these results do not provide evidence to support the recommendation that the backpack weight necessarily be less than 10% of body weight.
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Discourse of the Firetenders: Considering Contingent Faculty through the Lens of Activity Theory.
Sue Doe,Natalie Barnes,David Bowen,David P. Gilkey,Ginger Guardiola Smoak,Sarah Ryan,Kirk Sarell,Laura H. Thomas,Lucy J. Troup,Mike Palmquist +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the status and working conditions of contingent faculty through lenses ranging from labor relations (for example, Rhoades) to pedagogy to feminism, and official position statements, conference discussions, calls for action, and special recognitions for contingent faculty have been issued by many professional organizations.
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The inter-rater reliability of Strain Index and OCRA Checklist task assessments in cheese processing
TL;DR: Both the SI and OCRA Checklist assessments possess adequate inter-rater reliability for the purposes of occupational health research and practice and were among the highest reported in the literature for semi-quantitative physical exposure assessment tools of the upper extremity.
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