N2 - A dynamic economy contributes to the increase in the number of workers exposed to mechanical vibration caused by machines and transport equipment. As the means of transport are insufficiently recognised sources of mechanical vibrations, this article presents the results of whole-body and hand-arm vibration tests of 30 most common means of in-house transport. An analysis of vibration signals recorded at each workstation according to PN-EN 14253 and PN-EN ISO 5349 made it possible to determine the weighted values of components of directional vibration acceleration and the values of daily vibration exposure A(8). In order to assess exposure to whole-body and hand-arm vibration at the tested workstations of in-house transport, indices of vibration hazard related to admissible values, the total evaluation index (developed in a previous study at CIOP-PIB) and a three-degrees scale for assessing exposure to vibrations were used. The assessment showed that the workstations were a major hazard. Vibration hazards at all those workstations were classified as either medium or high. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/107543/PDF-MASTER/74.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/107543 PY - 2010 IS - No 2 EP - 190 DO - 10.2478/v10168-010-0017-1 KW - in-house transport KW - vibration KW - exposure assessment A1 - Kowalski, Piotr A1 - ZajÄ…c, Jacek PB - Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Committee on Acoustics VL - vol. 35 DA - 2010 T1 - Whole-Body and Hand-Arm Vibration in In-House Transport SP - 183 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/107543 T2 - Archives of Acoustics